Port Jews - David Cesarani

Port Jews

By David Cesarani

  • Release Date: 2014-04-04
  • Genre: Middle Eastern History

Description

The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.

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