The Politics of Jewish Commerce
The Politics of Jewish Commerce

Author: Jonathan Karp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-21

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1139472348

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This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that informed these debates - the ideal republic and the 'ancient constitution', the conflict between virtue and commerce, and the notion of useful and productive labor. It thus provides an overview of the political-economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation literature of this period. This overview is viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions. By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, the book also illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity. By elucidating these general debates, it renders more contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions - and the enormous impetus that Jewish reformist movements placed on the Jews' economic and occupational transformation - fully explicable.

The Politics of Jewish Commerce
The Politics of Jewish Commerce

Author: Jonathan Karp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-21

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521873932

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This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common motifs that informed these discussions. It thus provides the first overview of the political-economic dimensions of the Jewish emancipation literature of this period viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions.

The Economy in Jewish History
The Economy in Jewish History

Author: Gideon Reuveni

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1845459865

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Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, arguing that a broader, cultural approach is needed to understand the central importance of the economy. The very dynamics of economy and its ability to function depend on the ability of individuals to interact, and on the shared values and norms that are fostered within ethnic communities. Thus this volume sheds new light on the interrelationship between religion, ethnicity, culture, and the economy, revealing the potential of an “economic turn” in the study of history.

Commerce as Politics
Commerce as Politics

Author: Sean M. Maliehe

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-01-13

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 178920982X

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This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce. Although the colonial and post-colonial periods were unfavourable to the Basotho, they have, before and after colonial rule, launched impressive commercial initiatives of their own, which bring hope for greater development and freedom in their struggle for economic independence.

Medieval Jewry in Northern France
Medieval Jewry in Northern France

Author: Robert Chazan

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781421430669

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This story is significant for all who are fascinated by the capacity of human groups to respond and adapt creatively to a hostile and limiting environment.

The Chosen Few
The Chosen Few

Author: Maristella Botticini

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0691144877

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Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin

Author: Molly Loberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1108284868

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Who owns the street? Interwar Berliners faced this question with great hope yet devastating consequences. In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce. There, partisans and entrepreneurs fought for the attention of crowds with posters, illuminated advertisements, parades, traffic jams, and violence. The Nazi Party relied on how people already experienced the city to stage aggressive political theater, including the April Boycott and Kristallnacht. Observers in Germany and abroad looked to Berlin's streets to predict the future. They saw dazzling window displays that radiated optimism. They also witnessed crime waves, antisemitic rioting, and failed policing that pointed toward societal collapse. Recognizing the power of urban space, officials pursued increasingly radical policies to 'revitalize' the city, culminating in Albert Speer's plan to eradicate the heart of Berlin and build Germania.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815

Author: Jonathan Karp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 1152

ISBN-13: 9780521889049

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This seventh volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, from 1500 to 1815. The essays, written by an international team of scholars, situate the Jewish experience in relation to the multiple political, intellectual and cultural currents of the period. They also explore and problematize the 'modernization' of world Jewry over this period from a global perspective, covering Jews in the Islamic world and in the Americas, as well as in Europe, with many chapters straddling the conventional lines of division between Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Mizrahi history. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative work in this field currently available, this volume will serve as an essential reference tool and ideal point of entry for advanced students and scholars of early modern Jewish history.

Jews in Early Modern Europe
Jews in Early Modern Europe

Author: Francesca Trivellato

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781409431558

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This volume provides an innovative guide to the study of the Jewish past from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment that is designed for both students and seasoned scholars. It makes available sixteen contributions published between 1872 and 1974, which are veritable landmarks in the scholarship on Jewish history in early modern Europe but have so far remained little accessible. Many are here translated into English for the first time, while none is currently available in English online. The editors¿ introduction situates these classic essays in relation to the growing perception that the early modern period in Jewish history possesses its own distinctive features and identity. Accompanied by a rich bibliography, this volume highlights the many changes that academic study of this vital phase of the Jewish past has undergone in academic scholarship during the last hundred and fifty years.