Moshe Yagur
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moshe Yagur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moshe |
| FAMILY NAME | Yagur |
| SIGNATURE | YAGUR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6107-3585 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Narrating the Jewish Presence in Islamic Jerusalem
Shaving Hair and the Maintenance of Confessional Boundaries in Jewish Sources from the Early Islamic Period
In the early Islamic period, a new requirement for converts to Judaism emerges in Jewish legal sources: shaving the head and paring the nails. In one of the versions, facial hair is also explicitly mentioned. In the present article this requirement is examined in the context of punitive shaving of head and facial hair, which also first appears in the same period. These Jewish sources are studied with the broader background of such requirements in…
Living in the City
Scholarly consensus maintains that there was a ‘Jewish neighbourhood’, or perhaps several such neighbourhoods, in cities throughout the Islamicate world. In the present article, I delve deeply into this concept, seeking to problematise and unpack it more fully, using the city of Fusṭāṭ in Egypt as a test case
Excommunication and apostasy
The cautious beginnings of Sephardi self-identification
This article tackles the issue of Jewish Andalusi identity and the notion of Sephardi exceptionalism, promoted by several Jewish Andalusi scholars from the tenth century onwards. It does so by examining the way Jewish Iberian immigrants identified themselves, or were identified by their contemporaries, in their new locales. The basic corpus for this study is the documentary Cairo Geniza, which enables an examination of every-day experiences of th…
Religiously mixed families in the Mediterranean society of the Cairo Geniza
Documents of various genres from the Cairo Geniza from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, as well as contemporary legal queries to rabbinic figures, attest to the phenomenon of mixed-faith families among the Jewish communities of the Islamic Mediterranean. In most of these cases known to us, the husbands were Jewish apostates, probably converts to Islam, while their wives remained loyal to Judaism. This social reality was enabled by the legal …
Jewish Communal History in Geniza Scholarship
Religiously mixed families in the Mediterranean society of the Cairo Geniza
Documents of various genres from the Cairo Geniza from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, as well as contemporary legal queries to rabbinic figures, attest to the phenomenon of mixed-faith families among the Jewish communities of the Islamic Mediterranean. In most of these cases known to us, the husbands were Jewish apostates, probably converts to Islam, while their wives remained loyal to Judaism. This social reality was enabled by the legal …
Jewish Communal History in Geniza Scholarship
Religiously mixed families in the Mediterranean society of the Cairo Geniza
Documents of various genres from the Cairo Geniza from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, as well as contemporary legal queries to rabbinic figures, attest to the phenomenon of mixed-faith families among the Jewish communities of the Islamic Mediterranean. In most of these cases known to us, the husbands were Jewish apostates, probably converts to Islam, while their wives remained loyal to Judaism. This social reality was enabled by the legal …
The cautious beginnings of Sephardi self-identification
This article tackles the issue of Jewish Andalusi identity and the notion of Sephardi exceptionalism, promoted by several Jewish Andalusi scholars from the tenth century onwards. It does so by examining the way Jewish Iberian immigrants identified themselves, or were identified by their contemporaries, in their new locales. The basic corpus for this study is the documentary Cairo Geniza, which enables an examination of every-day experiences of th…
Excommunication and apostasy
Living in the City
Scholarly consensus maintains that there was a ‘Jewish neighbourhood’, or perhaps several such neighbourhoods, in cities throughout the Islamicate world. In the present article, I delve deeply into this concept, seeking to problematise and unpack it more fully, using the city of Fusṭāṭ in Egypt as a test case
Shaving Hair and the Maintenance of Confessional Boundaries in Jewish Sources from the Early Islamic Period
In the early Islamic period, a new requirement for converts to Judaism emerges in Jewish legal sources: shaving the head and paring the nails. In one of the versions, facial hair is also explicitly mentioned. In the present article this requirement is examined in the context of punitive shaving of head and facial hair, which also first appears in the same period. These Jewish sources are studied with the broader background of such requirements in…
Narrating the Jewish Presence in Islamic Jerusalem
Judaism (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Genizah (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works)