Communication in the Jewish diaspora
Subtitle: the pre-modern world
By: edited by Sophia Menache.
Contributors: Menache, Sophia.
Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies,; v. 16
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Jews -- History -- 70-1789.; Jews -- Intellectual life.; Jews -- Communication.; Communication -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Description: Although Jews lacked a political locus standi for a communication system in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, their involvement in trade and the close relations among Jewish communities fostered the development of effective channels of communication. This process responded primarily to security and socio-economic considerations but it has important implications for the development of communication systems as well.

Written by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field of Jewish history, this collection offers a rich and consistent picture of the main developments in communications in the Jewish world before the era of mass-media. This pioneering research reconsiders the principal means of communication among the Jewish communities in the Islamic world, Christian Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the New World, from the seventh until the nineteenth centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.