Mark R. Cohen is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a well-known authority on the Cairo Geniza and the history of the Jews in the medieval Islamic world. His books includeJewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish history in 1981;Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382, translated into Arabic, 1987;The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah(Princeton); and, most recently,Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton), which has been translated into Hebrew, Turkish, and German. |
