The Economy in Jewish History: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLEGOMENA to an “Economic Turn” in Jewish History
I RETHINKING THE ECONOMY IN JEWISH HISTORY
1 CAN ECONOMIC HISTORY DATE THE INCEPTION OF JEWISH MODERNITY?
2 WANDERING AS CIRCULATION Dostoevsky and Marx on the “Jewish Question”
3 MONEY MAKES THE JEW GO ROUND West German Jewry and the Search for Flexibility
II JEWS IN THE MARKETPLACE
4 ALL TALK OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? Brokerage and Schmoozing in a Swiss Urban Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
5 SOCIALISTS, BANKERS, AND SEPHARDIC JEWS The Pereire Brothers and the Crédit Mobilier
6 BUYING, SELLING, BEING, DRINKING Jewish Coffeehouse Consumption in the Long Nineteenth Century
7 CONSUMING POWERS The “Jewish Department Store” in German Politics and Culture
III JEWISH ECONOMIES IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
8 GOING NATIVE Moritz Jellinek and the Modernization of the Hungarian Economy
9 JEWS, PLUMES, AND GLOBAL COMMERCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD
10 TRADING IN TORAH Bootleg Bibles and Secondhand Scripture in the Age of European Imperialism
11 CUT TO ZIONISM The Emergence of the Diamond Industry in British-Ruled Palestine
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE VOLUME
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX