Port Jews : Jewish communities in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres, 1550-1950 / editor, David Cesarani. - 1 online resource (217 pages). - Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies, 1368-5449 . - Parkes-Wiener series on Jewish studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Port Jews : concepts, cases and questions / David Cesarani -- Fields of tension : development dynamics at the port-city interface / Brian Hoyle -- Port Jews and the three regions of emancipation / David Sorkin -- Researching Port Jews and Port Jewries : Trieste and beyond / Lois Dubin -- Portmanteau Jews : Sephardim and race in the early modern Atlantic world / Jonathan Schorsch -- Germany's door to the world : a haven for the Jews? Hamburg, 1590-1933 / Rainer Liedtke -- A tale of two Port Jewish communities : Southampton and Portsmouth compared / Tony Kushner -- The forgotten Port Jews of London : Court Jews who were also Port Jews / David Cesarani -- Port Jewry of Salonika : between neo-colonialism and nation-state / Mark Levene -- Greeks and Jews in Salonika and Odessa : inter-ethnic relations in cosmopolitan Port cities / Maria Vassilikou -- A port, not a Shtetl : reflections on the distinctiveness of Odessa / John D. Klier -- The Sorkin and Golab theses and their applicability to south, southeast, and east Asian Port Jewry / Jonathan Goldstein -- Conclusion : future research on Port Jews / David Cesarani.

9781315039312


Jews--Civilization.
Jews--History--16th century.
Jews--History--1789-1945.
Jews--Commerce--History.
Jewish merchants--History.--Europe
Sociology, Urban.
City and town life--History.--Europe


Electronic books.

DS112 / .P67 2013

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