A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza
"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 years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them
Print Book, English, 1967-<c1993>
1999 printing View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967-<c1993>
volumes <1-6> illustrations, facsimiles, maps 24 cm
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V. 1. Economic foundations
v. 2. The community
v. 3. The family
v. 4. Daily life
v. 5. The individual
v. 6. Cumulative indices
Vol. 6 by S.D. Goitein and Paula Sanders
"Published under the auspices of the Near Eastern Center, University of California, Los Angeles."