Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders

by S.D. Goitein

Book Overview

Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing the name of God were deposited to preserve them from desecration. From them Professor Goitein has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618771
• ISBN13: 9780691618777
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"