1. Introduction: two tales -- Part I. Institutions: 2. Merchants in their community; 3. The uses of commercial correspondence; 4. The nature of merchants' trade; 5. The human landscape: business relationships, institutions of law and government; 6. Conclusion to Part I -- Part II. Geographies: 7. The geography of information; 8. Commodities in a regional market; 9. Individual geographies of trade; 10. The contracting geography of the eleventh-century merchant network; 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants.
Access options:
The following links lead to the full text from the respective local libraries:
In: Social work in health care: the journal of health care social work ; a quarterly journal adopted by the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, Volume 49, Issue 3, p. 294-297
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 56-64
In spite of the relatively low numbers of Jews living in Ecuador and Peru, Jewish experience in the Andean region of South America has found literary expression in narrative works by Diego Viga (1907-1977) and Isaac Goldemberg (1945). Through the use of the child narrator, these two novelists represent various processes of cultural adaptation and individual survival. As children of Jewish immigrants to Latin America, these characters frequently cope with the contradictory circumstances that growing up Jewish in Ecuador and Peru often presents. A comparison of Diego Viga's The Lost Year (1963) and Isaac Goldemberg's The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner (1977) reveals the kind of confusion and hostility that these children encounter and the strategies they employ for dealing with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and rejection.
A large-scale survey carried out recently in the USSR on the information needs of soc sci'ts is reported. More than 470,000 reader's requests for publications in over 200 libraries, & at least 130,000 requests for bibliographical assistance & references were analyzed. These data concerned the information needs of over 34,000 specialists in diff branches of sci. In addition, some 1,350 soc sci'ts were questioned at their normal places of work, & 2,670 specialists working in libraries were also surveyed. The survey showed that 94% of the soc sci'ts queried elsewhere than in libraries need to consult books, 87% need periodicals, some 25% need standards, patents, & other types of documentation, 9% need maps, & 10% need manuscript materials. 4,267 replies polled from 1,350 R's outside libraries showed the following breakdown of subject requirements: econ's, 868; sociol & soc sells, 282; jurisprudence, 282; art, 102; literary criticism, 71; linguistics, 59; literary works, 371; other subjects, 1,047. The role of libraries in meeting the information needs of specialists is emphasized. Primary & secondary sources of information are discussed, & a separate information system for the soc sci's is proposed. This should be a cross between a library & a special subject reference & information bur with broad responsibilities for providing bibliographical & factual information. In the USSR, a combined library-information center has already been established on the basis of the former Fundamental Library for the Soc Sells. It is called the Instit of Sci'fic Information for the Soc Sells. It has highly developed bibliographical facilities built up over several decades, brings out bibliographical bulletins & indexes, & will begin publishing collections of abstracts covering econ's, philosophy, history, sociol, & other soc sci's. M. Maxfield.
