Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean...
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Author: Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture by Russ-Fishbane, Elisha

Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

$232.75

Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

$232.75
Author: Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader public. While the focus is on Jewish society and culture, critical context regarding the social history of ageing is provided by comparative perspectives from the Muslim world as well as from Spain and Provence and other areas of Christian Europe that were in the Arabic Andalusian cultural orbit.

The study draws on many literary genres and scholarly disciplines: philosophy and theology, ethics and law, biblical commentary, Hebrew poetry, medical literature, and a host of marriage contracts, personal letters, and family and communal records from the Cairo Genizah. The result is a nuanced portrait of ageing as both a lived reality and a cultural paradigm in medieval Jewish society.


Author: Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in Ass
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.42w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781800348516

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