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Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders
By (Author) S. D. Goitein
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Ancient history
Social groups: religious groups and communities
909.04924
Hardback
384
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
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