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Many of the papers relied extensively on Genizah sources and on the studies of their socio-economic content produced by the late Professor S.

27 Aug 2019: His general opin- ion of Marcus and Morris Jastrow and of Israel Abrahams, for exam- pie, was pretty low; and when it came to Genizah research, the abil- ities of Israel

My present project deals with the history of Babylonian Jewry in the early Middle Ages - the first centuries of Muslim rule - and with the position of Jews in the economic life

27 Aug 2019: Petersburg, Russia. Dr V ic to r Lebedev (le ft) and Dr Colin Baker exam ining one of th e A rabic fo lk -ta le m anuscripts in th e

Thus, for instance, some 60 letters of Jewish merchants engaged in Mediterranean maritime trade give us an interesting picture of the economic life of the period.

Goitein's lists. While one is able to reconstruct a great deal of the social history of the Mediterranean Jewish world by looking at the Genizah's liturgical economic and aggadic

In many ways, his life is emblematic of the Genizah, for it brings together the cultural and economic worlds of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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

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

Jane, who is studying liberal arts at Carleton College, Minnesota, was on a special course in political science at the London School of Economics and took the opportunity of being in