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Shylock´s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
Derek Penslar
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Description for Shylock´s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
Hardback. Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity. Num Pages: 385 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JFSR1; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
Throughout much of European history. Jews have been strongly associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shakespeare's Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. Shylock's Children tells the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effects on modern Jewish identity. Derek Penslar explains how Jews in modern Europe developed the notion of a distinct "Jewish economic man," an image that grew ever more complex and nuanced between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Throughout much of European history. Jews have been strongly associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shakespeare's Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. Shylock's Children tells the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effects on modern Jewish identity. Derek Penslar explains how Jews in modern Europe developed the notion of a distinct "Jewish economic man," an image that grew ever more complex and nuanced between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
Number of Pages
385
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520225909
SKU
V9780520225909
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99-1
About Derek Penslar
Derek J. Penslar is Samuel Zacks Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto and author of Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1870-1918 (1991). He coedited In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (1998).
Reviews for Shylock´s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
"A groundbreaking work.... Penslar persuasively demonstrates that economic issues, or 'political economy,' had a profound impact on the shape and character of Jewish self-understanding.... It will be required reading for all scholars... [and] will also capture the attention of a general audience." - David Sorkin, author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment "A major contribution.... Placing economics at the ... Read more