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Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
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Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe Hardcover - 2001

by Derek Penslar


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Throughout much of European history, Jews have been strongly associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shakespeare's Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. Shylock's Children tells the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effects on modern Jewish identity. Derek Penslar explains how Jews in modern Europe developed the notion of a distinct "Jewish economic man," an image that grew ever more complex and nuanced between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

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The irrationally of prejudice, its constant self-contradiction, appears most prominent in the case antisemitism.

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"A groundbreaking work. . . . Penslar persuasively demonstrates that economic issues, or 'political economy, ' had a profound impact on the shape and character of Jewish self-understanding. . . . It will be required reading for all scholars . . . . [and] will also capture the attention of a general audience."--David Sorkin, author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment

"A major contribution. . . . Placing economics at the center of modern European Jewish history, Penslar presents an original interpretation of the critical issues of modern Jewish history: emancipation, social mobility, anti-Semitism, and the construction of new identities."--Paula E. Hyman, author of The Jews of Modern France

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  • Title Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe
  • Author Derek Penslar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition.
  • Pages 385
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkely CA
  • Date 2001-07-01
  • ISBN 9780520225909 / 0520225902
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.35 x 6.33 x 1.31 in (23.75 x 16.08 x 3.33 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - Europe, Europe - Economic conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00048894
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.049

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  • Choice, 11/01/2001, Page 584

About the author

Derek J. Penslar is Samuel Zacks Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto and author of Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1870-1918 (1991). He coedited In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (1998).
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