Economic History Of The Jews

Author : Gideon Reuveni,Sarah Wobick-Segev
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459864

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The Economy in Jewish History by Gideon Reuveni,Sarah Wobick-Segev Pdf

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 : Salo Wittmayer Baron,Arcadius Kahan
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0805205381

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Economic History of the Jews by Salo Wittmayer Baron,Arcadius Kahan Pdf

Author : Jacques Attali
Publisher : Editions Eska
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Economics
ISBN : 2747214575

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The Economic History of the Jewish People by Jacques Attali Pdf

This book is also a must-read to understand the nature of capitalism and the role religious values have played. Alan Dershowitz --

Author : Michael Toch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004235397

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The Economic History of European Jews by Michael Toch Pdf

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 : Sara Koplik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004292383

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A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik Pdf

In A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan, Sara Koplik describes the conditions of the community from its growth in the 1840s to their emigration to Israel in the 1950s.

Author : Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691144870

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The Chosen Few by Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein Pdf

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 : Harold Pollins
Publisher : Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004181486

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Economic History of the Jews in England by Harold Pollins Pdf

Author : Barry R. Chiswick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030412432

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Jews at Work by Barry R. Chiswick Pdf

This book addresses the educational, occupational, and income progress of Jews in the American labor market. Using theoretical and statistical findings, it compares the experience of American Jews with that of other Americans, from the middle of the 19th century through the 20th and into the early 21st century. Jews in the United States have been remarkably successful; from peddlers and low-skilled factory workers, clearly near the bottom of the economic ladder, they have, as a community, risen to the top of the economic ladder. The papers included in this volume, all authored or co-authored by Barry Chiswick, address such issues as the English language proficiency, occupational attainment and earnings of Jews, educational and labor market discrimination against Jews, life cycle and labor force participation patterns of Jewish women, and historical and methodological issues, among many others. The final chapter analyzes alternative explanations for the consistently high level of educational and economic achievement of American Jewry over the past century and a half. The chapters in this book also develop and demonstrate the usefulness of alternative techniques for identifying Jews in US Census and survey data where neither religion nor Jewish ethnicity is explicitly identified. This methodology is also applicable to the study of other minority groups in the US and in other countries.

Author : Bernard Dov Weinryb
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 082760016X

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The Jews of Poland by Bernard Dov Weinryb Pdf

The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books records the development of this Jewish community. It attempts to capture the uniqueness of each period in the history of this community. In recounting the saga of Polish Jewry, the book endeavors to see Polish Jews as human beings acting and reacting humanly to the exigencies of life with courage and weakness, high ideals, beliefs, and sacrifices, on one hand, and human frailty, passions, and ambitions, on the other.

Author : Marvin Lloyd Miller,Ehud Ben Zvi,Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064147

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The Economy of Ancient Judah in Its Historical Context by Marvin Lloyd Miller,Ehud Ben Zvi,Gary N. Knoppers Pdf

The dynamics of ancient Judah’s economy are among the most important, but also neglected and least understood, aspects of ancient Israel’s history. The essays in this volume address this gap from a multidisciplinary perspective, involving archeology, biblical studies, economics, epigraphy, ancient history, Jewish studies, and theology. The essays focus on particular issues in the economy of ancient Judah and its neighbors during the late monarchy and the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods. Some of them evaluate the theoretical models used to understand the inner workings of ancient agrarian economies, while others explore rural economies, the forces of regeneration and degeneration in particular regions, the settlement histories of different areas, and the exploitation of depopulated land in Judah and Idumea. Essays in the volume also address population growth, urbanization, the role of diverse temple towns (such as Babylon and Jerusalem) in regional market economies, the literary portrayal of patron–client relationships, symmetrical and asymmetrical relations in international trade, and the views of urban elites toward agrarian economic developments. Yet others discuss family economics—policies of reproduction, gender roles, family size, and household hierarchies—in Judah and ancient Persia. Many of the essays appearing in this volume were originally delivered as papers in special sessions devoted to these topics at annual meetings of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and the European Association of Biblical Studies. The scholars participating in this international project conduct their research at institutions in Canada, Germany, Israel, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States.

Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351480437

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart Pdf

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911, Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes, the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber, Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner, placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context, examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism.

Author : Hillel Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-27
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0300052480

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Economic Origins of Antisemitism by Hillel Levine Pdf

Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834365

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Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Z. Muller Pdf

How the fate of the Jews has been shaped by the development of capitalism The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex—and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, Capitalism and the Jews will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.

Author : Arcadius Kahan,Roger Weiss
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226422402

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Essays in Jewish Social and Economic History by Arcadius Kahan,Roger Weiss Pdf

Author : Cornelia Aust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253032171

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The Jewish Economic Elite by Cornelia Aust Pdf

1. Amsterdam: a center of credit -- 2. Frankfurt an der Oder: Central European middlemen -- 3. Border lands: legal restrictions, army supplying, and economic success -- 4. Praga: a stepping stone -- 5. Warsaw: the rise of a Jewish economic elite