[SCA-AS] The Jews in Sicily

[Christiane]

Got this alert from Amazon.com, and I am passing it on. Anyone who has a medieval Jewish persona or those interested in the history of Sicily (like me) might be interested in this book; the price is prohibitively expensive, but maybe a university library in your area will pick it up.

Gianotta


>Notaries of Palermo (The Jews in Sicily) (The Jews in Sicily)
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>Shlomo Simonsohn
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>Price: $343.00
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>Release Date: March 31, 2008
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>To learn more about Notaries of Palermo (The Jews in Sicily) (The Jews in Sicily), please visit the following page at Amazon.com: 
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9004167595/ref=pe_snp_595

Book Description
This volume in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Sicily for most of the fourteenth century. It is the sequel to the first volume on the history of the Jews in Sicily, and illustrates the events of the first century of Aragonese rule over the island. During that period, often unsettled by political upheavals, the Jewish minority flourished economically, but suffered, along with the rest of the population, during civil war and uprisings of the barons. Some thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the Jews and their relationships with the authorities and their Christian neighbours. Much new information has come to light, and many facets of Jewish life in Sicily have been uncovered.