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Shylock's Children Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe

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ISBN-10: 0520225902

ISBN-13: 9780520225909

Edition: 2001

Authors: Derek J. Penslar

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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 Childrentells 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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Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jews, Paupers, and Other Savages: The Economic Image of the Jew in Western Europe, 1648-1848
Economic Antisemitism in Historical Perspective
Moralism, Mercantilism, and Cameralism
The Jew as Pauper
The Jew as Savage
The Jew as Master
The Origins of Jewish Political Economy, 1648-1848
Judaism and Economics
Mercantilism and Jewish Modernity
Educating Shylock: Economics in the German Haskalah
Economics in the Eastern European Haskalah
From the Periphery to the Center: Political Economy in German Jewish Social Thought, 1815-1848
The Origins of Modern Jewish Philanthropy, 1789-1860
Rationality, Morality, and Philanthropy
The Theory and Practice of Jewish Productivization
Homo economicus judaicus and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1848-1914
Economic Mobility
Abnormality and Distinctiveness
Gentile Visions of Homo economicus judaicus
Burghers of the Mosaic Persuasion
Wirtschaft and Wissenschaft: Economics and Jewish Historiography
Solving the "Jewish Problem": Jewish Social Policy, 1860-1933
The Communal Arena: From Philanthropy to Social Welfare
Jewish Social Policy and Bourgeois Social Reform
The National Arena: Jewish Immigration Policy
"Productivization": Apologetic, Romantic, or Realistic?
Social Policy and Jewish Social Science
The Birth of Sociological Judaism
From Social Policy to Social Engineering, 1870-1933
Zionism as a Form of International Jewish Politics
Jewish Social Policy in Palestine
Colonization as Social Engineering
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index