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Shylock's Children
Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
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English
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2001
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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.
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Penslar Derek :
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).
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Jews, Paupers, and Other Savages: The Economic Image of the Jew in Western Europe, 1648-1848
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2. The Origins of Jewish Political Economy, 1648-1848
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3. The Origins of Modern Jewish Philanthropy, 1789-1860
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4. Homo economicus judaicus and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1848-1914
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5. Solving the "Jewish Problem": Jewish Social Policy, 1860-1933
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6. From Social Policy to Social Engineering, 1870-1933
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EPILOGUE
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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July 1, 2001
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9780520925847
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385
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Keywords for this book
jewish economic man; jewish modernity; economic antisemitism; jewish history; economic image; european history; international jewish politics; modern jewish identity; judaism; self understanding; western europe; antisemitism; moralism; mercantilism; cameralism; pauper; savage; master; political economy; shylock; german haskalah; social thought; philanthropy; rationality; capitalism; jewish historiography; social engineering; productivization; social policy; zionism; money and trade; europe
