Aspects of Jewish Economic History
Author : Marcus Arkin
Publisher : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Arkin
Publisher : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Gideon Reuveni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1845459865
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.
Author : Michael Toch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004235396
The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”.
Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Jews
ISBN :
Author : Michael Toch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004235345
The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”.
Author : Cornelia Aust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0253035449
In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity, and intimate family life. Following their travels from Amsterdam to Warsaw, Aust opens a multifaceted window into the lives, relationships, and changing conditions of Jewish economic activity of a new Jewish mercantile elite.
Author : Jacques Attali
Publisher : Editions Eska
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9782747214575
This book is also a must-read to understand the nature of capitalism and the role religious values have played. Alan Dershowitz --
Author : Maristella Botticini
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691144877
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.
Author : Sara Koplik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004292381
A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It examines the political, economic and social conditions they faced as religious minorities. The work focuses upon harsh governmental economic policies of the 1930s and 1940s spearheaded by 'Abd al-Majid Khan Zabuli which caused the impoverishment and suffering of both the local community and refugees from Soviet Central Asia. The question of Nazi influence in Afghanistan is addressed, with the author arguing that it was mainly limited to the economic sphere. An examination of the appeal of Zionism and the community's immigration to Israel is included.
Author : Harold Pollins
Publisher : Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :