 | Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History Subjects: Jewish merchants -- History; Jews -- Economic conditions -- History; Jewish capitalists and financiers -- History; Jewish businesspeople -- History; Jews -- Commerce -- History; Jews in public life -- History; Jewish philanthropists -- History; Purchasing Power repositions economics in our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America and traces how economic circumstances have formed the context for, and even underpinned, Jewish intellectual, culture, and political development. Rebecca Kobrin is Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. She is author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora and editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism. Adam Teller is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Brown University. |
