It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt by Mark R. Cohen
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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old...
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt by Mark R. Cohen is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt aloud.
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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