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S. D. Goitein: Humanist and the Doyen of Geniza Studies S. D. Goitein: Humanist and the Doyen of Geniza Studies
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A. L. Udovitch: Vanguard of the Princeton School A. L. Udovitch: Vanguard of the Princeton School
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Udovitch’s Successors Udovitch’s Successors
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An Alternative: Embeddedness Without Humanism An Alternative: Embeddedness Without Humanism
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The Emergence of Documentary Evidence to Support Goitein’s “Working Hypothesis” The Emergence of Documentary Evidence to Support Goitein’s “Working Hypothesis”
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One Jewish, Islamic, or Mediterranean? Historiography and the Cairo Geniza
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Published:January 2014
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Abstract
The first chapter briefly discusses the historiography of mercantile cooperation of Jews in Islamic lands seen particularly through the documents of the Cairo Geniza. It then proceeds to show at greater length how a number of scholars, recently dubbed the “Princeton School,” have used detail from Geniza documents, which emerged from Jewish hands, to describe economic life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole. The chapter identifies the key assumption that has made it possible for these scholars to extrapolate from the Jewish Geniza documents to the Islamic world, namely that Jews and Muslims structured their mercantile arrangements in precisely the same manner. Finally, the chapter aims to reveal some of the motivating forces behind this assumption--specifically, its simplicity and utility, as well as its implication that economic life was not an area Jews might have used as a vehicle for the establishment and maintenance of communal boundaries.
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