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Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

by Eve Krakowski
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780691174983
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
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  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: USD 47.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 658 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Judaism / History, Middle East / General, and Jewish Studies

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"This breathtaking triumph of research and synthesis brings to life the young Jewish women who inhabited the medieval Islamic world. From documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a synagogue depository of discarded writings, Eve Krakowski follows Jewish girls on the cusp of adulthood and explores the complex ties that existed between religious traditions and social reality. An extraordinary achievement by a rising star."--Ivan G. Marcus, Yale University

"This brilliant and elegantly written book makes full use of Geniza texts in remarkably new ways. Eve Krakowski's exploration of Jewish girls' coming-of-age is told through a rich tapestry of stories in which rabbinic norms of maturation and first marriage are displayed against a background of Middle Eastern and Islamicate values."--Mark R. Cohen, author of Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World

"Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt is a pathbreaking analysis of female adolescence and family life that offers an altogether fresh and methodologically sophisticated perspective on Jewish women's lives in medieval Fustat. This much-needed and exemplary book is remarkable in the sheer quantity and range of primary sources used and represents the best of the new generation of research on materials from the Geniza."--Arnold E. Franklin, Queens College, CUNY

"This superb book is a major contribution to a number of fields, especially Islamicate intellectual, legal, and social history, and Jewish legal and social history. It draws on an astonishingly wide array of documentary sources and is certainly the most important work of social history from the Geniza since Goitein's A Mediterranean Society. With her wonderfully nuanced arguments, Krakowski provides a masterly analysis of the subject."--Jessica Goldberg, University of California, Los Angeles

Eve Krakowski is assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University.

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