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As Shelomo Dov Goitein noted in Economic Foundations (the first volume of A Mediterranean Society), "not a single complete account book from the classical Genizah period has come down to us.". ... Goitein was aware of this and, in a 1966 article in the

Though Jews, or dhimmis, they differed little from their Muslim neighbours in social and economic life.

The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. Genizah Fragments. The Newsletter of Cambridge University's. Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. at Cambridge University Library. No. 47 April 2004. From the Editor's desk. Huge challenge. One of the

One film is on the history of economics and the other is to accompany an exhibition on the Tales of the Arabian Nights, in the Osaka Museum. ... In an Arabic article entitled "The Genizah Documents and their Importance for the Study of the Economic

The interview revolved round the social, economic and cultural achievements of medieval Jews in large communities such as that of Egypt, and touched on the relationships between the Jews of the

The third programme in the series briefly covered the significance of the Genizah material for economic history and the site provides a cross-reference to a more detailed account of that ... He paid particular attention to documents of social, economic

One only hopes that the economic difficulties at present being suffered by British universities will not eventually mean that they will fall behind their European neighbours in the promotion of such ... Goitein related this unique literature to the daily

The interviews are being conducted by BBC economics editor, Peter Jay; the filming by Colin Clarke; and the sound by Andy Cottom. ... Peter Jay and I discussed the content of several fragments of particular importance to the history of economics.

The letters give us a fine aperçu into the socio-economic and cultural status of women and into the entire family structure.

relations. He used Genizah texts to demonstrate that the principles of seclusion and discrimination inculcated by religious bigotry were often countered by the kind of economic and social realities that nurtured