Bücher der Reihe The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People

Covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. The book provides an introduction to many facets of that history. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and includes a bibliography for further reading.

Provides a wide-ranging picture of Jewish life in medieval Egypt as depicted by most recent scholarship. Starting from the last phases of the Byzantine era and ending with the Mamluk period, the book presents a scholarly yet vivid description of Jewish communal organization, judiciary, economic frameworks, family life, and lingual practices.

Ilans Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans' work.