Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
Author
Eve Krakowski
Content
xvi + 350 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, University of Chicago
Description
Examines the lives of young Jewish women from puberty to first marriage in the Islamic eastern Mediterranean from the 10th century to the 13th century. Based on documents in the Cairo Geniza, a collection of administrative materials, legal documents, letters, and personal accounts written mainly by and about Jews in Egypt and Syria.
Main subject
Anthropology and Cultural Studies Law Religion and Spirituality
ISBN
9780691174983 (cloth); 9781400887842 (ebook)
Citation
Krakowski, Eve. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL751.
