Purchasing Power : : The Economics of Modern Jewish History /

Purchasing Power : : The Economics of Modern Jewish History / / ed. by Adam Teller, Rebecca Kobrin.

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How has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity? Purchasing Power answers this question by examining the nexus between money and power in modern Jewish history. It does so, in its first section...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
MitwirkendeR:
Aust, Cornelia,
Cooperman, Bernard Dov,
Daelen, Veerle Vanden,
Dekel- Chen, Jonathan,
Dynner, Glenn,
Green, Abigail,
Karp, Jonathan,
Kobrin, Rebecca,
Mendelsohn, Adam D.,
Penslar, Derek,
Sutcliffe, Adam,
Teller, Adam,
Wilke, Carsten L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Kobrin, Rebecca,
Teller, Adam,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History
  • PART I. NETWORKS AND NICHES: THE CREATION OF JEWISH ECONOMIC POWER
  • Chapter 1 Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Strug gle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome
  • Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance
  • Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth- Century Central Europe
  • Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland
  • Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce
  • Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock 'n' Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain
  • PART II. PHILANTHROPY, MONEY, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF POWER IN JEWISH ECONOMIC HISTORY
  • Chapter 7. The "West" and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880
  • Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War
  • Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II
  • Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism
  • Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Walter Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History
  • Notes
  • Index
  • List of Contributors

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