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Using a variety of historical sources, this book demonstrates the complexity of intertwined
relations among Venetians, Jews, and Ottomans in the sixteenth century.
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Aḥima‘az ben Paltiel, Leiden: Brill.
Scholarly edition and translation of a unique eleventh-century southern-Italian Jewish chron-
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academic fields in order to contextualize the chronicle into its Jewish and Mediterranean
historical settings.
Dubin, L. (1999) The Port Jews of Hapsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment
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Shows that the Hapsburg treatment of the “port Jews” of Trieste in the eighteenth century
anticipated Jewish emancipation and enlightenment, which are usually associated by histo-
rians with Paris and Berlin after the French Revolution.
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as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 5 vols, Berkeley: University of California
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An encyclopedic study of eleventh- and twelfth-century Jews based on the documentary
evidence from the Cairo Geniza; with individual volumes on economy, community,
family, daily life, and the individual.
Goldberg, J. (2012a) Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza
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Based on the business correspondence of the Cairo Geniza, this study not only shows how
the Geniza’s “Maghribi merchants” operated, but extrapolates from their activity outlines
of the contemporaneous Muslim Mediterranean economy.
Kashtan, N. (ed.) (2001) Seafaring and the Jews, London: Frank Cass.
A collection of scholarly essays, each covering a different period of Jewish history; originally
published in The Mediterranean Historical Review, 15:1 (2000).