Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History

Contents......Page 6
Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History......Page 9
PART I. NETWORKS AND NICHES: THE CREATION OF JEWISH ECONOMIC POWER......Page 33
Chapter 1. Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Struggle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome......Page 35
Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance......Page 54
Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe......Page 79
Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland......Page 99
Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce......Page 120
Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock ’n’ Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain......Page 133
PART II. PHILANTHROPY, MONEY, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF POWER IN JEWISH ECONOMIC HISTORY......Page 161
Chapter 7. The “West” and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880......Page 163
Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War......Page 179
Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II......Page 200
Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism......Page 224
Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Werner Sombart’s The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History......Page 246
Notes......Page 267
B......Page 351
D......Page 352
G......Page 353
K......Page 354
M......Page 355
P......Page 356
S......Page 357
V......Page 358
Z......Page 359
List of Contributors......Page 361