Port Jews

Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950
Herausgeber: Cesarani, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780714682860
• ISBN-10: 0714682861
• Artikelnr.: 21803340

Autorenporträt

Cesarani, David

Inhaltsangabe

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.