Author : Alexander Del Mar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Interest
ISBN : HARVARD:HNLK8F
Usury and the Jews
Alexander Del Mar
Usury And The Jews
Usury And The Jews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Usury And The Jews book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender
Julie L. Mell
Author : Julie L. Mell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137397782
The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender by Julie L. Mell Pdf
This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the rise of political antisemitism. This book also documents why it is a myth for medieval Europe, and illuminates how changes in Jewish history change our understanding of European history. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of central topics, such as the usury debate, commercial contracts, and moral literature on money and value to demonstrate how the revision of Jewish history leads to new insights in European history.
Teachings on Usury in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Susan Louise Buckley
Author : Susan Louise Buckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028650518
Teachings on Usury in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Susan Louise Buckley Pdf
Capitalism and the Jews
Jerry Z. Muller
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834365
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.
Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud
Ben Zion Rosenfeld
Author : Ben Zion Rosenfeld
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681965
Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud by Ben Zion Rosenfeld Pdf
Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the Torah prohibition of usury in loans to all fields of credit. It is a pioneering inquiry regarding rabbinic literature compiled under Roman and Sasanid rule, helping to fill the void in research concerning credit. It also distinguishes various kinds of credit differentiating credit of money for money, or products, exposing the ramifications of the rabbinic legislation.
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion
Rachel M. McCleary
Author : Rachel M. McCleary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199781281
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion by Rachel M. McCleary Pdf
This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to contemporary issues such as immigrants in the United States and ask historical questions such as why did Judaism as a religion promote investment in education? The economics of religion applies economic concepts (for example, supply and demand) and models of the market to the study of religion. Advocates of the economics of religion approach look at ways in which the religion market influences individual choices as well as institutional development. For example, economists would argue that when a large denomination declines, the religion is not supplying the right kind of religious good that appeals to the faithful. Like firms, religions compete and supply goods. The economics of religion approach using rational choice theory, assumes that all human beings, regardless of their cultural context, their socio-economic situation, act rationally to further his/her ends. The wide-ranging topics show the depth and breadth of the approach to the study of religion.
The Chosen Few
Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein
Author : Maristella Botticini,Zvi Eckstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691144870
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.
The Promise and Peril of Credit
Francesca Trivellato
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217383
The Promise and Peril of Credit by Francesca Trivellato Pdf
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
The Jews and Modern Capitalism
Werner Sombart
Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351480437
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.
On the Jews and Their Lies
Martin Luther
Author : Martin Luther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732353212
On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther Pdf
Founder of modern-day Lutheranism, Martin Luther (1483-1546) confronted many opponents, most notably, the Jews. Their religion directly denied Jesus as Messiah, and their arrogance, lies, usury, and hatred of humanity meant that they posed a mortal threat to society. Hence, said Luther, the harshest of measures are warranted. A shocking book.
Discourse on the State of the Jews
Simone Luzzatto
Author : Simone Luzzatto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110528237
Discourse on the State of the Jews by Simone Luzzatto Pdf
In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Trials of the Diaspora
Anthony Julius
Author : Anthony Julius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199600724
Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius Pdf
The first ever comprehensive history of anti-Semitism in England, from medieval murder and expulsion through to contemporary forms of anti-Zionism in the 21st century.
Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300
Anna Sapir Abulafia
Author : Anna Sapir Abulafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867708
Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300 by Anna Sapir Abulafia Pdf
The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role played by Jews in a predominantly Christian society. This book provides an original survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations encompassing England, Spain, France and Germany, and sheds light in the process on the major developments in medieval history between 1000 and 1300. Anna Sapir Abulafia's balanced yet humane account offers a new perspective on Christian-Jewish relations by analysing the theological, socio-economic and political services Jews were required to render to medieval Christendom. The nature of Jewish service varied greatly as Christian rulers struggled to reconcile the desire to profit from the presence of Jewish men and women in their lands with conflicting theological notions about Judaism. Jews meanwhile had to deal with the many competing authorities and interests in the localities in which they lived; their continued presence hinged on a fine balance between theology and pragmatism. The book examines the impact of the Crusades on Christian-Jewish relations and analyses how anti-Jewish libels were used to define relations. Making adept use of both Latin and Hebrew sources, Abulafia draws on liturgical and exegetical material, and narrative, polemical and legal sources, to give a vivid and accurate sense of how Christians interacted with Jews and Jews with Christians.
Usury
Calvin Elliott
Author : Calvin Elliott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547379256
Usury by Calvin Elliott Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Usury" (A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View) by Calvin Elliott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Jewish Bankers and the Holy See (RLE: Banking & Finance)
Leon Poliakov
Author : Leon Poliakov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136300691
Jewish Bankers and the Holy See (RLE: Banking & Finance) by Leon Poliakov Pdf
The Jewish community in Rome is the oldest in Europe, the only one to have existed continuously for over 2,000 years. This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov’s classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is at the same time the story of medieval finance in general, its decline, and the birth of ‘modern’ finance. The author traces the economic and theological implication of each stage in the ambiguous relationship that developed between the Jewish money trade and the Holy See. He shows that the protection enjoyed by the Jews from the Holy See had not only theological, but also economic roots. The study ends with an account of the introduction of modern, ‘capitalist’ techniques and of the consequent inevitable decline of the Jewish money trade.
