books.google.co.uk - This major new contribution to the history of women examines the special status accorded to women in the Jewish communities of the Eastern Mediterranean provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Topics examined include their daily life and the social norms governing them, polygamy,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Separate_People.html?id=OKlYce7f8iAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Separate People