Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture / Eve Krakowski.

This book is based on documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, which are written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script)-as well as on late ancient and medieval literary texts in these languages. This book considers how ordinary Jewish women fit into the socia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krakowski, Eve, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Jewish women > Egypt > Social conditions > To 1500.
Jewish women > Religious life > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Cairo Genizah.
Jewish women > Religious life.
Jewish women > Social conditions.
Egypt.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 350 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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