Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: The Pre-Modern World (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 16)

✍ Scribed by Sophia Menache (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
Introduction: The "Pre-History" of Communication
Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: A Survey
By Land or By Sea: The Passage of the Kalonymides to the Rhineland in the Tenth Century
Geniza Letters: Maritime Difficulties Along the Alexandria-Palermo Route
The Use of Letters as a Communication Medium Among Medieval European Jewish Communities
Communication Among Jewish Centers During the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries
"Companies of Disciples" and "Companies of Colleagues": Communication in Jewish Intellectual Circles
Between East and West: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Its Jewish Communities as a Communication Center (1099-1291)
Communication and Propaganda Between Provence and Spain: The Controversy Over Extreme Allegorization (1303-1306)
Communication or the Lack Thereof Among Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century Provençal Jewish Philosophers: Moses Ibn Tibbon and Gersonides on Song of Songs
Hebrew Letters, Hispanic Mail: Communication Among Fourteenth-Century Aragon Jewry
A Judeo-Italian Version of Selected Passages from Cecco d'Ascoli's Acerba
The Spread of the Sabbatean Movement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Tradition du discours et discours de la tradition dans les communautés juives du Maroc: Etude socio-pragmatique
Traditional and Modern Communication: The Jewish Context