Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture

Elisha Russ-Fishbane (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

417 Seiten

2022
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80034-851-6 (ISBN)

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This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader public. While the focus is on Jewish society and culture, critical context regarding the social history of ageing is provided by comparative perspectives from the Muslim world as well as from Spain and Provence and other areas of Christian Europe that were in the Arabic Andalusian cultural orbit.

The study draws on many literary genres and scholarly disciplines: philosophy and theology, ethics and law, biblical commentary, Hebrew poetry, medical literature, and a host of marriage contracts, personal letters, and family and communal records from the Cairo Genizah. The result is a nuanced portrait of ageing as both a lived reality and a cultural paradigm in medieval Jewish society.

Elisha Russ-Fishbane is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and the author of Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt (2015), which was awarded the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies by the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Introduction

I. Conceptions and Perceptions of Ageing

1. How Old Is Old?

2. Longevity and Its Limits

3. Ageing Body, Ageing Mind

II. Ageing in Family and Community

4. Grandparents and the Multigenerational Home

5. Family Networks of Care

6. Community Support

III. Ideas and Ideals of Old Age

7. The Dignity of Age

8. Facing Mortality: Towards a Hebrew Poetics of Ageing

9. The Sabbath of Life: Age and Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Thought

Appendix: Life Expectancy and Medieval Mediterranean Jewry

Afterword: On an Integrative Approach to the Study of Old Age

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80034-851-7 / 1800348517
ISBN-13	978-1-80034-851-6 / 9781800348516
Zustand	Neuware