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Editore: Princeton University Press, 2019
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Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Princeton University Press, 2019
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Editore: Haifa University Press Springer, Haifa, 2014
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoftbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 125-247 pp. Articles in 28: 2 are " Cultural Meanings of Money in Medieval Ashkenaz: On Gift, Profit, and Value in Medieval Judaism and Christianity," Julie L. Mell, ""The Religion We Plant in Their Hearts": A Critical Exploration of the Religiosity of a German Jewish Famil…y at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Forum: Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. By David Nirenberg," Maurice Samuels, Hindy Najman and David Nirenberg, "Book Review: Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East. By Arnold E. Franklin.," Elisha Russ-Fishbane, "Book Review: Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace. By Joseph Shatzmiller," Katherine Aron-Beller, "Book Review: Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation. By Magda Teter," Cornelia Aust, "Book Review: Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany. By Robert Liberles," Francesca Bregoli, "Book Review: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora. By Rebecca Kobrin," Shaul Stampfer, "Book Review: Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. By Elissa Bemporad.," Brian Horowitz, "Book Review: The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe. By David I. Kertzer.," Susan Zuccotti, "Book Review: Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust. By Jan Tomas Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross," Zoe Waxman.
Editore: Haifa University Press Springer, Haifa, 2012
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoftbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 275-361 pp. Articles in 26: 3-4 are " The Blood Libel in Eastern Europe," Robert Weinberg, "The Rules of the Game: Forensic Medicine and the Language of Science in the Structuring of Modern Ritual Murder Trials," Hillel J. Kieval, "Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town," E…ugene M. Avrutin, "Jewish Students and Christian Corpses in Interwar Poland: Playing with the Language of Blood Libel," Natalia Aleksiun, "Empowerment, Defiance, and Demise: Jews and the Blood Libel Specter under Stalinism," Elissa Bemporad.
Editore: Haifa University Press Springer, Haifa, 2013
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoftbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 143 pp. Articles in 27: 1 are " French Halakhic Tradition in the Late Middle Ages," Jeffrey R. Woolf, "The Artifact and Humanism in Medieval Jewish Thought," David Malkiel, "Between Amsterdam and Warsaw: Commercial Networks of the Ashkenazic Mercantile Elite in Central Euro…pe," Cornelia Aust, ""God Loves an Infant's Praise": Cultural Borrowing and Cultural Resistance in Two Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Sunday-School Texts," Jonathan D. Sarna, "Book Review: The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination. By Marc Michael Epstein," Sara Offenberg, "Book Review: Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis and A Jew in the Medici Court: The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo (16151621). By Edward Goldberg." Fabrizio Lelli, "Book Review: Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. By David H. Price." Debra Kaplan, "Book Review: Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 15981638. By Katherine Aron-Beller. Studies in Early Modern European History." Vincenzo Lavenia, "Book Review: "Interstizi": Culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei suoi domini dal medioevo all'età moderna. Edited by Uwe Israel, Robert Jütte, and Reinhold C. Mueller. Ricerche / Centro tedesco di studi veneziani, vol. 5.," Katherine Aron-Beller, "Book Review: The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau (the 'Noda Biyehudah') and His Contemporaries. By Sharon Flatto." Joseph Davis, "Book Review: Jews and the Civil War: A Reader. Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn." Holly Snyder, "Book Review: Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th - and Early 20th -Century Russia. By Brian Horowitz." Ellie Schainker, "Book: Review: A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature. By Jordan D. Finkin." Marc Caplan, "Book Review: Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution. By Kenneth B. Moss," Joshua M. Karlip, "Book Review: History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage. By Beth S. Wenger and Sylvia Barack Fishman.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2019
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Hardbound. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 407 pp., b/w photos, notes, index.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, wh…ich required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and interlopers across the globe, concocted ways of bartering, securing credit, and establishing relationships with people who did not speak their language, wore different garb, and worshipped other gods. Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide range of commercial exchanges, from first encounters between strangers from different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse groups. In order to broach the intriguing yet surprisingly neglected subject of how the relationship between trade and religion developed historically, the authors consider a number of interrelated questions: When and where was religion invoked explicitly as part of commercial policies? How did religious norms affect the everyday conduct of trade? Why did economic imperatives, political goals, and legal institutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places? When did trade between religious groups give way to more tolerant views of "the other " and when, by contrast, did it coexist with hostile images of those decried as "infidels "?Exploring captivating examples from across the world and spanning the course of the second millennium, this groundbreaking volume sheds light on the political, economic, and juridical underpinnings of cross-cultural trade as it emerged or developed at various times and places, and reflects on the cultural and religious significance of the passage of strange persons and exotic objects across the many frontiers that separated humankind in medieval and early modern times.
Editore: Haifa University Press Springer, Haifa, 2012
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoftbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 274 pp. Articles in 26: 1-2 are " Preface," Jay Berkovitz and Francesca Trivellato, "Salome in the Middle Ages," William Chester Jordan, "The reckonings of Nahmanides and Arnold of Villanova: on the early contacts between Christian millenarianism and Jewish messianism," Mau…rice Kriegel, "The myth of the Jewish origins of philosophy in the Renaissance: from Aristotle to Plato," Abraham Melamed, ""The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau": Isaac Abravanel between Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides," Liron Hoch and Menachem Kellner , "Cum Nimis Absurdum and the Ancona Auto-da-Fé revisited: their impact on Venice and some wider reflections," Benjamin Ravid, "Jews, Christians, and sex in Renaissance Italy: a historiographical problem," Robert Bonfil, "The burdens of maternity: devising a demographic policy for late-renaissance Bologna," Nicholas Terpstra , "A Rabbi reads the Qur'an in the Venetian ghetto," Howard Tzvi Adelman, ""This passage can also be read differently :" How Jews and Christians censored Hebrew texts in early modern Modena," Federica Francesconi, "Buon Purim: proselytizing, professing Jews and the Papal Inquisition in Modena," Katherine Aron-Beller, "Crisis and authority in early modern Ashkenaz," Jay R. Berkovitz, "Medicine as Enlightenment cure: Benedetto Frizzi, physician to eighteenth-century Italian Jewish society," Lois C. Dubin, "The rescue of Jewish girls and teenage women to England and the USA during the Holocaust: a gendered perspective," Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, "'Too holy to print': taboo anxiety and the publishing of practical Hebrew esoterica," J. H. Chajes, "Bibliography of the Publications of Kenneth Stow.".
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Paperback. Condizione: New. How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political…order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend's earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory-from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
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Religion and Trade : Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
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Condizione: New. Editor(s): Trivellato, Francesca; Halevi, Leor; Antunes, Catia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HRAX; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394. . 2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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Paperback. Condizione: New. How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political…order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend's earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory-from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
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Religion and Trade : Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
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Condizione: New. Editor(s): Trivellato, Francesca; Halevi, Leor; Antunes, Catia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HRAX; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394. . 2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Hardback. Condizione: New. How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political o…rder. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets.By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend's earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory-from Marx to Weber and Sombart.Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
