Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the seder table and recite a familiar line: We were slaves in Egypt. But the Haggadah insists on more than memory. “In every generation,” it declares, “a person must see himself as if he personally went out from Egypt.” Craig Perry’s book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt asks a question the Hagga…