Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-01
Mått:163 x 239 x 42 mm
Vikt:806 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Antal sidor:417
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781800348516

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Elisha Russ-Fishbane is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and the author of Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt (2015), which was awarded the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies by the American Academy for Jewish Research.

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Reviews'Wide-ranging, methodologically sophisticated, and deeply learned, Russ-Fishbane has read systematically in literary and documentary sources, both Jewish and Islamic. Few scholars possess such broad competence. The book’s geographic and chronological parameters are logical and natural. Stylishly written and clearly structured, the work is extremely engaging and easily digested.’Daniel Frank, Ohio State University

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IntroductionI. Conceptions and Perceptions of Ageing1. How Old Is Old?2. Longevity and Its Limits 3. Ageing Body, Ageing Mind II. Ageing in Family and Community 4. Grandparents and the Multigenerational Home5. Family Networks of Care 6. Community SupportIII. Ideas and Ideals of Old Age7. The Dignity of Age 8. Facing Mortality: Towards a Hebrew Poetics of Ageing 9. The Sabbath of Life: Age and Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Thought Appendix: Life Expectancy and Medieval Mediterranean JewryAfterword: On an Integrative Approach to the Study of Old AgeBibliographyIndex