The Festschrift Darkhei Noam : the Jews of Arab lands

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam : the Jews of Arab lands / edited by Carsten Schapkow, Shmuel Shepkaru, and Alan T. Levenson.

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the...

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Other Authors: Schapkow, Carsten, 1970- (Editor), Shepkaru, Shmuel (Editor), Levenson, Alan T. (Editor), Stillman, Norman A., 1945- (honouree.), Erder, Yoram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 55.
Subjects:
Jews > Arab countries > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Juden
Araber
Arab countries > Ethnic relations.
Arab countries
Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Festschrift Darkhei Noam: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben Elī's Commentary on Genesis 36; Chapter 2 Apes and the Sabbath Problem; Chapter 3 Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City; Chapter 4 A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Geniza Society; Chapter 5 The "Custom of the Merchants" in Gaonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; Chapter 6 Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl-A Martyr in Bukhārā.
  • Chapter 7 "Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King": The Sephardic Courtier Tradition RevisitedChapter 8 Deniers et marchandises : le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle; Chapter 9 A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zevi Idelsohn's Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9); Chapter 10 Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaïa (Algeria); Chapter 11 Secular Trends and Tradition: Post-Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews; Chapter 12 Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years.

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