Up until the advent of Nasser and the 1956 War, a thriving and diverse Jewry lived in Egypt – mainly in the two cities o
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Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that
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Through close textual analysis, detailed historical contextualization, and critical animal theory Bestiarium Judaicum ex
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Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much–visited monastic settlements of th
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Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Eg
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Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rati
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Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complex
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