| Series |
Jewish culture and contexts
Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Jewish Usury, Jewish Historiography, and the Readmission Polemic of the 1650s -- Usury and the Re-narration of the Ancient Israelite Society -- English Ethnography and the Economy of the Jews -- Jews and the Financial Revolution -- The 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Polemic over Public Credit -- Jews, Finance, and Gender on the Stage and Beyond -- Finance and the Eschaton -- Economic Crime and Criminal Economy -- Jews and English Civil Society: Between Cumberland's The Jew and the Campaignfor Emancipation. |
| Abstract |
"In this book, historian Avinoam Yuval-Naeh investigates how and why eighteenth-century English society projected anxieties regarding the parallel development of the modern economy and of the re-establishment of the Jewish population upon the other, thus offering new insights into the interface of religious ideas and economic life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2023032817 |
| ISBN | 9781512825053 |
| ISBN | 1512825050 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
