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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carsten Schapkow , Shmuel Shepkaru , Alan T. LevensonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 55 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9789004300903ISBN 10: 9004300902 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 01 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsThe Contributors Foreword: President Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma Introduction by the three editors 1. Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben 'Eli's Commentary on Genesis 36, Yoram Erder 2. Apes & the Sabbath Problem, Reuven Firestone 3. Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City, Jacob Lassner 4. A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Genizah Society, Renee Levine Melammed 5. The Custom of the Merchants in Geonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Mark Cohen 6. Yishaq-i Kamal - a Martyr in Bukhara, Vera Basch Moreen 7. Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King . The Sephardic Courtier Tradition Revisited, Jane Gerber 8. Deniers et marchandises; le financement commercial des juifs portugais a Bayonne au XVIIIe siecle, Gerard Nahon 9. A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn's Gesange der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9), Edwin Seroussi 10. Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaia (Algeria), Ofra Tirosh Becker 11. Secular Trends and Tradition: Post Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews, Bat-Zion Eraqui-Klorman 12. Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years, Allan Arkush 13. Bibliography of Prof. Stillman's Publications, Walker Robins IndexReviewsDr. Norman Stillman is one of the leading scholars of Jewish history, especially the history of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. This excellent collection raises questions about the remarkable flexibility of Jewish law in the day to day life of Jews in Arab lands; Jewish cultural life, particularly material and musical culture; the role of women in these different societies; Antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, up to modern political Zionism. --David B. Levy, Touro College, NY, AJL Reviews, Volume VI, No.1 Author InformationCarsten Schapkow is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He has published on Iberian-Sephardic history and German-Jewish history. Shmuel Shepkaru is Schusterman Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History at the University of Oklahoma. He has published on the topic of martyrdom, Jewish-Christian relations, and Jewish-Arab relations. Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman/Josey Chair of Jewish History at the University of Oklahoma. He has published on Jewish history and the use/abuse of the Bible in modern Jewish culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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