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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1065768362 Title: A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza Author: Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967-<©1993> ISBN/ISSN: 0520221583 9780520221581 0520221591 9780520221598 0520221605 9780520221604 0520221613 9780520221611 0520221621 9780520221628 0520221648 9780520221642 OCLC:1065768362

  
  

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A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza

Author:	Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Publisher:	Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967-<©1993>
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1999 printingView all editions and formats
Summary:	"This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century."--Pub. desc.  Read more...
Subjects	Jews -- Islamic Empire -- Civilization. Islamic Empire -- Civilization. Cairo Genizah. View all subjects
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