Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. PROLEGOMENA to an “Economic Turn” in Jewish History 1
6. I RETHINKING THE ECONOMY IN JEWISH HISTORY
7. 1 CAN ECONOMIC HISTORY DATE THE INCEPTION OF JEWISH MODERNITY? 23
8. 2 WANDERING AS CIRCULATION Dostoevsky and Marx on the “Jewish Question” 43
9. 3 MONEY MAKES THE JEW GO ROUND West German Jewry and the Search for Flexibility 62
10. II JEWS IN THE MARKETPLACE
11. 4 ALL TALK OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? Brokerage and Schmoozing in a Swiss Urban Society in the Early Nineteenth Century 79
12. 5 SOCIALISTS, BANKERS, AND SEPHARDIC JEWS The Pereire Brothers and the Crédit Mobilier 94
13. 6 BUYING, SELLING, BEING, DRINKING Jewish Coffeehouse Consumption in the Long Nineteenth Century 115
14. 7 CONSUMING POWERS The “Jewish Department Store” in German Politics and Culture 135
15. III JEWISH ECONOMIES IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
16. 8 GOING NATIVE Moritz Jellinek and the Modernization of the Hungarian Economy 157
17. 9 JEWS, PLUMES, AND GLOBAL COMMERCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD 174
18. 10 TRADING IN TORAH Bootleg Bibles and Secondhand Scripture in the Age of European Imperialism 187
19. 11 CUT TO ZIONISM The Emergence of the Diamond Industry in British-Ruled Palestine 202
20. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE VOLUME 222
21. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
22. INDEX 232