ISBN:
9781107648500
,
9781107011304
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 257 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2017
DDC:
306.3089/92404
Keywords:
Jewish consumers
;
Consumer behavior
;
Judaism and culture
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
Consumption (Economics) Social aspects
;
Consumption (Economics) Religious aspects
;
Jews Identity
;
Europe
;
Consumption (Economics) History
;
Europe
;
Jews History
;
Europe
;
Consumption (Economics)
;
Consumption (Economics)
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Europe
;
History
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
Geschichte 1918-1933
Abstract:
"Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world; Jews not only made money but spent money. This book is the first to investigate the intersection between consumption, identity, and Jewish history in Europe. It aims to examine the role and place of consumption within Jewish society and the ways consumerism generated and reinforced Jewish notions of belonging from the end of the eighteenth-century to the beginning of the new millennium. It shows how the advances of modernization and secularization in the modern period increased the importance of consumption in Jewish life, making it a significant factor in the process of redefining Jewish identity"--
Abstract:
Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world; Jews not only made money but spent money. This book is the first to investigate the intersection between consumption, identity, and Jewish history in Europe. It aims to examine the role and place of consumption within Jewish society and the ways consumerism generated and reinforced Jewish notions of belonging from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the new millennium. It shows how the advances of modernization and secularization in the modern period increased the importance of consumption in Jewish life, making it a significant factor in the process of redefining Jewish identity.
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