A Mediterranean Society, Volume VI
The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Cumulative Indices
by S. D. Goitein (Author), Paula Sanders (Contribution by)
May 2000
This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge...