This article describes how Jews in medieval Crete were involved in, and knowledgeable about, agricultural practices. It pushes back against a persistent view in the scholarly literature that medieval Jews were alienated from the land, and that their disproportionate involvement in trade hastened the Commercial Revolution. The study attempts to show that Cretan Jews took halakhic strictures on agriculture seriously, and that, as a result, they farmed differently from their Greek Orthodox and Latin Christian peers. By examining Jewish texts from the Hellenic territories of the Venetian Republic, the article makes the case that stereotypes of Jews as merchants betrays abundant evidence that medieval Jews were deeply engaged in cultivating the land.

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农业在中世纪犹太人生活中的重要性：克里特岛的案例

本文描述了中世纪克里特岛的犹太人如何参与并了解农业实践。它反驳了学术文献中的一种顽固观点，即中世纪的犹太人与土地疏远，他们不成比例地参与贸易加速了商业革命。该研究试图表明克里特岛犹太人认真对待哈拉克教对农业的限制，因此，他们的耕作方式与希腊东正教和拉丁基督教同龄人不同。通过检查来自威尼斯共和国希腊领土的犹太文本，文章证明了将犹太人视为商人的刻板印象背叛了大量证据，表明中世纪犹太人深入参与了土地的耕作。