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Title The Jews in Sicily. Volume 9, Corte pretoriana and notaries of Palermo / by Shlomo Simonsohn
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Studia post-Biblica ; 48/3
A documentary history of the Jews in Italy ; 3 <13-14, 16, 18-22, 26>
Studia post-Biblica ; 48/3.
Documentary history of the Jews of Italy ; 13, <16, 18-24, 26>.
Pirsume ha-Makhon le-ḥeḳer ha-tefutsot ; sefer 115, <140>
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Bibliography 8212; Additions -- Sources -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Documents -- Indexes -- Index of Persons -- Geographical Index -- Subject Index
Summary This volume of the "Documentary History of the Jews in Italy" is the first of the second series, illustrating the history of the Jews in Sicily based on notarial and court records. It is the sequel to the eight volumes of the first series. Notarial deeds drawn up by public notaries in Palermo and elsewhere and cases brought before the Pretorian Court in Palermo present a kaleidoscopic picture of the private lives of the Jews of Sicily during the last three centuries of their presence on the island. They illustrate the economic, social, and religious history of the Jewish minority and the relations with the Christian majority. Much information is provided on trade and commerce, crafts and professions, religious and family life. Some light is thrown also on the internal life of the communities, particularly the larger ones, including organization and institutions, the synagogue, education, customs and traditions. Although the surviving legal deeds present only a fraction of the total drawn up in those years, they are copious and abundant. Over 30,000 documents of this group were selected for publication. While some documents were dealt with at length, most had to be presented in summary form, giving only the bare essentials. Most appear here for the first time. The volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction will appear at the end of the series
Notes "Also represents volume 115 of the Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute, the School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University"--Vol. 1, p. vii. Vol. 2 is v. 140 of the same
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Jews -- Italy -- Sicily -- History -- Sources
Cairo Genizah.
HISTORY.
Cairo Genizah
Ethnic relations
Jews
Joden.
SUBJECT Sicily (Italy) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- Sources
Subject Italy -- Sicily
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019
ISBN 9789047411512
904741151X
1281457906
9781281457905