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Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 552 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The manuscript collections of the Bodleian Library contain a corpus of dozens of documents from the archive of Moses ben Judah. A leader of the Jewish community in Alexandria, he was also a prominent businessman and in contact with individuals from Cairo to Sicily. This collection of documents at the Bodleian likely did not emerge from the Cairo Genizah, but from another depository, and appears to have been buried at some point. The documents, which include letters and deeds, shed light on the world of the Jewish elite of a Mediterranean city at the end of the Middle Ages, their communal and business life, connections between Jewish communities, and intellectual trends and tastes among educated Jews. They improve our understanding of the lives of Alexandrian Jews in the late Middle Ages and provide new data about the local leadership and its relations with the Nagidate (the central Jewish leadership) in Cairo, the cantors, the poll tax and its effects, and more. We hear about tensions within this society and the growing presence of European (Italian, Greek, Iberian, and conversos) Jews within the complex social mosaic of Egyptian Jewry in the late Mamluk period. The documents inform us about Alexandria's Jewish community and the commercial networks of the Mediterranean world, in which Jews traded alongside Christians and Muslims. This volume makes an important contribution to the study of Judaeo-Arabic at a watershed moment. Sources from the late Mamluk period show Judaeo-Arabic at a linguistic border between Classical and Late Judaeo-Arabic. The volume will therefore further readers' knowledge of historical linguistics of Arabic in general, and Judaeo-Arabic in particular. The phrase 'Wisdom and Greatness in One Place' in the title of the book is a quotation from the Babylonian Talmud (Gi¿¿in 59a), the meaning of which is that it is rare to find combined in one man political leadership and intellectual pre-eminence.…

Softcover. Condición: gut. 2025. Wisdom and Greatness in one Place: The Alexandrian Trader Moses ben Judah and his Circle (Semitic Languages and Cultures) In englischer Sprache. pages.

IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH. Contains folded poster. 27.5x27 cm. 80 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket edges slightly rubbed. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Spine edges slightly rubbed. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew English.

IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH. Contains folded poster. 27.5x27 cm. 80 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. The book is in : Hebrew English.

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