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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 94, No. 2 (Spring 2004) 396399 S. D. GOITEIN. A Mediterranean Society: An Abridgment in One Volume. Revised and edited by Jacob Lassner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxii 503. S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume A Mediterranean Society is one of the major twentieth-century works of Jewish history. Based on the historical documents of the Cairo Geniza, it portrays in fascinating detail the economic life, communal organization and activities, family life, material ´ culture, and mentalite of Jews and, by extension, other groups, including the Muslim majority, on the southern shores of the medieval Mediterranean. The appearance of a one-volume abridgment constitutes an enormously valuable contribution to both the scholar and the general reader. Anyone familiar with Goitein's opus should realize what a daunting task this must have been for the editor, especially in accommodating the publisher's necessarily restrictive page limit: 2,724 pages, excluding indices, have been boiled down to 482. Given this enormous challenge, we are greatly indebted to Jacob Lassner for producing an eminently readable ´ entree into the
Jewish Quarterly Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 4, 2004
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