European Jewry in the age of mercantilism 1550-1750 / Jonathan I. Israel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Israel, Jonathan, 1946- author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--History--16th century.

Jews.

Jews--Europe--History--17th century.

Jews--History--70-1789.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2020.

Summary:

This survey history of Jewish life and culture in early modern Europe is the first to focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a radically new phase in Jewish history. The volume lays particular emphasis on the reversal of trends in western and central Europe in the late sixteenth century, which was followed by a rapid increase in Jewish numbers and activity, and far-reaching reorganization of Jewish society and institutions. A major consequence of these changes was a much expanded and more varied Jewish role in European civilization as a whole. The first edition of this book was the joint winner of the Wolfson Literary Prize for History in 1986. For this third edition, the text has been updated and includes a new introduction.

Notes:

Originally published by Oxford University Press 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 13, 2020).

ISBN:

1-80034-028-1

1-909821-36-5

OCLC:

1048779321