The Economy in Jewish History

New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-774-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reuveni, Gideon

Wobick-Segev, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Prolegomena to an ‘Economic Turn’ in Jewish History

Gideon Reuveni

PART I: RETHINKING THE ECONOMY IN JEWISH HISTORY

Chapter 2. Can Economic History Date the Inception of Jewish Modernity?

Jonathan Karp

Chapter 3. Wandering as Circulation: Dostoevsky and Marx on the ‘Jewish Question’

Kirill Postoutenko

Chapter 4. Money Makes the Jew Go Round: West German Jewry and the Search for Flexibility

Anthony D. Kauders

PART II: JEWS IN THE MARKETPLACE

Chapter 5. All Talk or Business as Usual? Brokerage and Schmoozing in a Swiss Urban Society in the early 19th Century

Susanne Bennewitz

Chapter 6. Socialists, Bankers and Sephardic Jews: The Pereire Brothers and the Crédit Mobilier

Helen M. Davies

Chapter 7. Buying, Selling, Being, Drinking; Or, how the Coffeehouse became a Site for the Consumption of new Jewish Modalities of Belonging

Sarah Wobick-Segev

Chapter 8. Consuming Powers: The “Jewish Department Store” in German Politics and Culture

Paul Lerner

PART III: JEWISH ECONOMIES IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 9. Going Native: Moritz Jellinek and the Modernization of the Hungarian Economy

Michael L. Miller

Chapter 10. Jews, Plumes, and Global Commerce in the Modern Period

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Chapter 11. Trading in Torah: Bootleg Bibles and Secondhand Scripture in the Age of European Imperialism

Adam Mendelssohn

Chapter 12. Cut to Zionism: The Emergence of the Diamond Industry in British-Ruled Palestine

David DeVries

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wobick-Segev, Sarah
Sarah Wobick-Segev is a Jim Joseph postdoctoral teaching fellow at Syracuse University. She has most recently published “Une place pour l’amour? Le mariage juif à Paris et à Berlin dans une ère transitionnelle, 1890–1930” in Expériences croisées. Les juifs de France et d’Allemagne aux XIXe et XXe siècles edited by Heidi Knörzer (Éditions de l’éclat, 2010).

Reuveni, Gideon
Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 (Berghahn, 2006) and the co-editor of several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.

Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 (Berghahn, 2006) and the co-editor of several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.