Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950 / Edition 1

by David Cesarani

Overview

The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714653495
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/2002
Series:	Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Port Jews - concepts, cases and questions, David Cesarani; fields of tension -development dynamics at the port-city interface, Brian Hoyle; port Jews and the three regions of emancipation, David Sorkin; researching port Jews and port Jewries -Trieste and beyond, Lois Dubin; Portmanteau Jews - Sephardim and race in the early modern Atlantic world, Jonathan Schorsch; Germany's door to the world - a haven for the Jews? Hamburg, 1590-1933, Rainer Liedtke; a tale of two port Jewish communities - Southampton and Portsmouth compared, Tony Kushner; the forgotten port Jews of London - court Jews who were also port Jews, David Cesarani; port Jewry of Salonika and Odessa - inter-ethnic relations in cosmopolitan port cities, Maria Vassilikou; a port, not a shtetl - reflections on the distinctiveness of Odessa, John D. Klier; the Sorkin and Golab theses and their applicability to south, southeast and east Asian port Jewry, Jonathan Goldstein; conclusion - future research on port Jews, David Cesarani.

Editorial Reviews

'This collection is an important scholarly work in the field and will surely inspire further research and wider cross-disciplinary collaboration.' - European Judaism

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