TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oded Zinger
TI  - Living with the Law: Gender and Community among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts
SN  - 9781512823790
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Jewish marriage customs and rites
KW  - Jewish courts
KW  - Courts
KW  - Marriage (Jewish law)
KW  - Marriage law
KW  - Cairo Genizah
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250). Examining the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the street of old Cairo and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish Law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those in legal, social and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived"--
ER  -