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Article: The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem.(Review)
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- July 1, 2001
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The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem, by Amnon Cohen. Leiden, Boston, and Koln: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001, 305pp., $86.
A non-specialist reader's first reaction on perusing The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem would most probably be, guilds? Ottoman Jerusalem? Some readers, including this one, would even wonder if they knew what the word "guild" means in the context of Jerusalem of two or even three centuries ago.
More, and greater, surprises are in store for our reader. Here is a small town, with a population in 1800 of approximately 9,000, catering to a little less than a hundred guilds. Even a very partial listing of these guilds, and the great variety of ...