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.
| ISBN: | 9781800348516 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 2022 |
| Author: | Elisha RussFishbane |
| Publisher: | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Series: | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization |
| Genres: |
Judaism: life and practice Age groups: the elderly |
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.
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture features in the following genres: Judaism: life and practice, Age groups: the elderly
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture is available in Hardback
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture was written by Elisha RussFishbane and published by The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization an imprint of Liverpool University Press
Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture has 448 pages
Yes it is part of The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization series