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antisemitism
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cameralism
capitalism
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economic antisemitism
economic image
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europe
european history
german haskalah
international jewish politics
jewish economic man
jewish historiography
jewish history
jewish modernity
judaism
master
mercantilism
modern jewish identity
money and trade
moralism
pauper
philanthropy
political economy
productivization
rationality
savage
self understanding
shylock
social engineering
social policy
social thought
western europe
zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520225909
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
