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Port Jews : Jewish communities in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres, 1550-1950 / editor, David Cesarani.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies.
- Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies, 1368-5449
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Civilization.
- Jews.
- Jews--History--16th century.
- Jews--History--1789-1945.
- Jews--Commerce--History.
- Jewish merchants--Europe--History.
- Jewish merchants.
- Sociology, Urban.
- City and town life--Europe--History.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 : between neo-colonialism and nation-state / Mark Levene
- Greeks and Jews in 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-29253-1
- 0-7146-8286-1
- 1-315-03931-1
- 1-135-29246-9
- 9781315039312
- OCLC:
- 876512761
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