"Companion to ... Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of Medieval Egypt"--Page [xi].
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction -- Basic themes -- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction -- The foreign poor -- Indigent captives and refugees -- Debt and poll tax -- Women and poverty -- Letters regarding public charity -- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists -- Donor lists -- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Mark Cohen presents not only a case-study of medieval Jewish life, but structural aspects of poverty and charity generally un-noticed. His anthology comprises letters and other documents used in his earlier work 'Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt'.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt4d09q1
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Title
Voice of the poor in the Middle Ages
International Standard Book Number
0691092621
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Genisafragmente
Genisafragmente.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Jews-- Egypt-- Charities-- History.
Jews-- Egypt-- Social conditions.
Judaism-- Charities-- History.
Poor-- Egypt-- History.
Poverty-- Religious aspects-- Judaism.
Judaïsme-- Œuvres de bienfaisance-- Histoire.
Juifs-- Égypte-- Conditions sociales.
Juifs-- Égypte-- Œuvres de bienfaisance-- Histoire.