Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 1-39
Keywords:
Jews Economic conditions
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Consumer behavior History
Abstract:
More than a decade ago, Jewish studies witnessed an economic turn, driven by a growing interest in Jews’ economic activities, Jewish-gentile economic contacts, and the economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation, acculturation, and persecution. This turn unveiled a variety of new analytical perspectives on Jews as both consumers and creators of commercial and retail cultures. It also shed new light on core topics like migration, Zionism, antisemitism, marginalization, gender, and the reshaping of Jewish religious and familial life in modernity. This chapter offers an overview of this thriving research on Jewish and gentile consumer cultures, on structural conflicts between consumption and religion, and on the lure, challenges, and disappointments of modern consumer cultures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and America. Finally, it presents the main results of the case studies in this volume and reflects on methodological issues and topics for future research.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-88960-9_1
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