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050 4 _aDS140.5.P87 2015
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100 1 _aKobrin, Rebecca.
245 1 0 _aPurchasing Power :
_bThe Economics of Modern Jewish History.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2016.
300 _a1 online resource (364 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aJewish Culture and Contexts Series
505 0 _aCover -- Contents -- Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History -- PART I. NETWORKS AND NICHES: THE CREATION OF JEWISH ECONOMIC POWER -- Chapter 1. Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Struggle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome -- Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance -- Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe -- Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland -- Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce -- Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock 'n' Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain -- PART II. PHILANTHROPY, MONEY, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF POWER IN JEWISH ECONOMIC HISTORY -- Chapter 7. The "West" and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880 -- Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War -- Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II -- Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism -- Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Werner Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- List of Contributors.
520 _aPurchasing 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aJewish merchants-History.
650 0 _aJews-Economic conditions.
650 0 _aJewish capitalists and financiers-History.
650 0 _aJewish businesspeople-History.
650 0 _aJews-Commerce-History.
650 0 _aJews in public life-History.
650 0 _aJewish philanthropists-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aTeller, Adam.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKobrin, Rebecca
_tPurchasing Power
_dPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2015
_z9780812247305
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aJewish Culture and Contexts Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4321846
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