The Business of Identity

This study explores Jewish commercial partnerships in medieval Egypt, and reveals Jewish merchants to have used economic cooperation as a vehicle for cultural identity formation and maintenance. Through a detailed analysis of the legal documents of the Cairo Geniza, the book shows an affinity between Jewish law and the daily life of Jewish merchants filtered through the courts, which educated merchants about the norms of Jewish commercial law without necessarily demanding that the merchants transact their business according to those norms.

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Stanford University Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

464

ISBN

9780804785471

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata