Living with the law

• Verfasst von: Zinger, Oded [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Living with the law
• Titelzusatz: gender and community among the Jews of medieval Egypt
• Verf.angabe: Oded Zinger
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xiii, 255 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Jewish culture and contexts
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite [217]-240
• ISBN: 978-1-5128-2379-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Juden / (s)Staatliches Gericht / (s)Ehesache / (s)Gemeinschaft / (s)Mittelalter / (g)Ägypten
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Zinger, Oded: Living with the law. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 256 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1809219337

Abstract

"Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250). Examining the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the street of old Cairo and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish Law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those in legal, social and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived"--