Title Purchasing power : the economics of modern Jewish history / edited by Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Jewish culture and contexts Jewish culture and contexts. Contents Licenses, cartels, and kehila : Jewish moneylending and the struggle against restraint of trade in early modern Rome / Bernard Cooperman -- Contraband for the Catholic king : Jews of the French Pyrenees in the tobacco trade and Spanish state finance / Carsten L. Wilke -- Daily business or an affair of consequence? Credit, reputation, and bankruptcy among Jewish merchants in eighteenth-century Central Europe / Cornelia Aust -- Jewish quarters : the economics of segregation in the Kingdom of Poland / Glenn Dynner -- From Moses to Moses : Jews, clothing, and colonial commerce / Adam D. Mendelsohn -- Brokering a rock 'n' roll international : Jewish record men in America and Britain / Jonathan Karp -- The "West" and the rest : Jewish philanthropy and globalization to c.1880 / Abigail Green -- Rebels without a patron state : how Israel financed the 1948 war / Derek Penslar -- Orthodoxy through diamonds : Jewish life in Antwerp after World War II / Veerle Vanden Daelen -- Faith meets politics and resources : reassessing modern transnational Jewish activism / Jonathan Dekel-Chen -- Historiographical challenges / Adam Sutcliffe Summary Purchasing Power repositions economics in our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America and traces how economic circumstances have formed the context for, and even underpinned, Jewish intellectual, culture, and political development Analysis Architecture Business Economics European History History Jewish Studies World History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Jewish philanthropists -- History Jews in public life -- History Jews -- Commerce -- History Jewish businesspeople -- History Jewish capitalists and financiers -- History Jews -- Economic conditions -- History Jewish merchants -- History Jews -- Economic conditions. HISTORY -- Jewish. Jewish businesspeople Jewish capitalists and financiers Jewish merchants Jewish philanthropists Jews -- Commerce Jews -- Economic conditions Jews in public life Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Teller, A., editor Kobrin, Rebecca, editor ISBN 9780812291650 0812291654

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