Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (1994) 25-38
Keywords:
Weber, Max,
;
Sombart, Werner,
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Historiography
;
Antisemitism Economic aspects
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Economics Philosophy
Abstract:
A revised version of a paper delivered at the 14th annual conference of the Israel Historical Society in Jerusalem, July 1990. Notes that 19th-century historians linked antisemitism to the economic activity of Jews (mainly in the Middle Ages), either as cause or as effect. They saw in the Jews the mainstay of medieval commerce and finance. Sombart and Weber accepted this (mistaken) thesis. Sombart regarded the Jews as the pioneers of capitalism, but capitalism for him was a negative development. Weber, who regarded it as positive, assigned the pioneering role to the Protestants; the Jews (as "pariahs") engaged only in the less savory branches of robber capitalism, usury and trade. Remarks that, in fact, the Jews did not bring about capitalism but profited from its development.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Hoffnung und Untergang" (1998). In Hebrew:
,
"דת וכלכלה" (תשנה) 53-63; "תקווה וכיליון" (תשסט) 14-27
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