Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture, Paperback - Eve Krakowski

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

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Seen through the eyes of an intellectually ambitious son of immigrant parents, Concrete Steps is the story of a boy growing up in the 1940s and '50...

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A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel.

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jesica Siham FernandezIllustration(s): 2 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Critical P...

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

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The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

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This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved ...

New essays exploring Jewish cultural trends of the past two decades, interspersed with choice material from the Jewish Renaissance magazine archive...

Reducere. Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and unde...

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In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

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The lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society.Publ...

The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long been recognised. Based on extensive research, this book examines the...

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Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures - Gad Freudenthal

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From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...