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Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt /

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 commu...

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Основен автор: Cohen, Mark R., 1943-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ℗♭2005.
Серия: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295533
Подобни документи: Print version:: Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt.
Съдържание:
  • 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.