The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848 - Hardcover

Karp, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521873932 ISBN 13: 9780521873932

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France, and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common motifs that informed these discussions. It thus provides the first overview of the political-economic dimensions of the Jewish emancipation literature of this period viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions.

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Book Description:

By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, this book illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity, measured against traditional political and constitutional ideals. By elucidating these general debates, it renders contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions fully explicable for the first time.

About the Author:

Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor in the Judaic Studies and History Departments at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is co-editor of The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 2007). His current book projects are The Rise and Demise of the Black-Jewish Alliance: A Class-Cultural Analysis and Philosemitism in History (with Adam Sutcliffe; Cambridge University Press, 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521873932
• ISBN 13: 9780521873932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388