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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. 5 by Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. 5 about?
This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty
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- Author
- Shelomo Dov Goitein; Paula Sanders; Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520018679
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Islam, Judaism
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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