Coming of age in medieval Egypt: female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture

This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the socia...

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1. Verfasser: Krakowski, Eve 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth to thirteenth century Islamic Eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to that social order-kinship and law-shaped their lives
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 350 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780691174983