Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

Name: Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt
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ISBN: 9780691092720

ISBN-10: 0691092729

ISBN-13: 9780691092720

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark R. Cohen

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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in…

Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/11/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.41" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note


Introduction



A Taxonomy of the Poor



The Foreign Poor



Captives, Refugees, and Proselytes



Debt and the Poll Tax



Women and Poverty



"Naked and Starving," the Sick and Disabled



Beggars or Petitioners?



Charity



Conclusion: Poverty and Charity, Continuity and Acculturation


Bibliography


Index of Geniza Texts


General Index