Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt / Mark R. Cohen.
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TextSeries: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern worldPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400826780
- 1400826780
- Voice of the poor in the Middle Ages.
- Jews -- Egypt -- Charities -- History
- Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
- Judaism -- Charities -- History
- Jews -- Egypt -- Social conditions
- Poor -- Egypt -- History
- Judaism -- Relations -- Islam
- Islam -- Relations -- Judaism
- Cairo Genizah
- Pauvreté -- Aspect religieux -- Judaïsme
- Judaïsme -- Œuvres de bienfaisance -- Histoire
- Pauvres -- Égypte -- Histoire
- Judaïsme -- Relations -- Islam
- Islam -- Relations -- Judaïsme
- Génizah du Caire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness
- HISTORY -- Medieval
- Cairo Genizah
- Interfaith relations
- Islam
- Jews -- Charities
- Jews -- Social conditions
- Judaism
- Poor
- Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
- Egypt
- Armoede
- Joden
- Liefdadigheid
- 362.5/089/924062 22
- HC79.P6 C56 2005eb
- 15.75
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Complemented by the author's collection of primary sources in translation, The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages: an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza, on which the research is based.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and indexes.
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 Cai.
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Acknowledgments; Note; Introduction; Chapter One: A Taxonomy of the Poor; Chapter Two: The Foreign Poor; Chapter Three: Captives, Refugees, and Proselytes; Chapter Four: Debt and the Poll Tax; Chapter Five: Women and Poverty; Chapter Six: "Naked and Starving," the Sick and Disabled; Chapter Seven: Beggars or Petitioners?; Chapter Eight: Charity; Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Poverty and Charity, Continuity and Acculturation; Bibliography; Index of Geniza Texts; General Index.
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