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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Cohen, Mark R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 2 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Taxonomy of the Poor
  • Chapter 2. The Foreign Poor
  • Chapter 3. Captives, Refugees, and Proselytes
  • Chapter 4. Debt and the Poll Tax
  • Chapter 5. Women and Poverty
  • Chapter 6. "Naked and Starving," the Sick and Disabled
  • Chapter 7. Beggars or Petitioners?
  • Chapter 8. Charity
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: Poverty and Charity, Continuity and Acculturation
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Geniza Texts
  • General Index

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