Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt /

Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt / 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 commu...

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Main Author: Cohen, Mark R., 1943-
Other title:Voice of the poor in the Middle Ages.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Subjects:
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.
Cairo Genizah
Interfaith relations
Islam
Jews > Charities
Jews > Social conditions
Judaism
Poor
Poverty > Religious aspects > Judaism
Egypt
History.

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Call Number: HC79.P6 C56 2005eb
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