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Publisher's Note: The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population....Robert Brody's book--the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century--focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity.