Jewish Economic Elite - Making Modern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Cornelia Aust specializes in the history of Jewish communities in Poland and German speaking lands from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. Klappentext In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity, and intimate family life. Following their travels from Amsterdam to Warsaw, Aust opens a multifaceted window into the lives, relationships, and changing conditions of Jewish economic activity of a new Jewish mercantile elite. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Spelling, Transcription, and Translation Introduction 1. Amsterdam: A Center of Credit 2. Frankfurt an der Oder: Central European Middlemen 3. Border Lands: Legal Restrictions, Army Supplying, and Economic Success 4. Praga: A Stepping Stone 5. Warsaw: The Rise of a Jewish Economic Elite Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Cornelia Aust, Cornelia (COR) Aust
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780253032164
• ISBN: 978-0-253-03216-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: German Jewish Cultures; German Jewish Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches