Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of Medieval Egypt
By: Mark R. Cohen.
Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
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
Other titles: Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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.