Economic origins of antisemitism : Poland and its Jews in the early modern period

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Economic origins of antisemitism : Poland and its Jews in the early modern period

Hillel Levine

Yale University Press, c1991

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 241-261

Includes index

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: hbk ISBN 9780300049879

内容説明

In this examination of the economic roots of antisemitism, Hillel Levine traces the position of Jews in Poland from the end of the 16th century to the demise of the Polish state in 1795. Levine explains why Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic and political system at a time when Western European countries were rapidly evolving, and he shows that Jews were blamed for this failure to modernize, fueling an economic antisemitism that contributed to the Holocaust and is with us still. Levine examines various philosophical and socioeconomic theories that were inspired by Judaism, Christianty, scholasticism, the Reformation, Counter Reformation, and the Enlightenment and that encouraged or discouraged the quest for modernization. He demonstrates how these theories were either adapted or rejected by Poland, by Jews and by the West. He argues that, contrary to popular belief, Polish Jews were innovative and managerial and could have spurred trade and industry. They were instead channeled into equivocal enterprises such as the production and distribution of grain-based intoxicants. Levine explains how the painful awareness of backwardness that developed among Poles provided a new rhetoric for reform and a vocabulary that linked Poland's economic and political decline to the Jews, a convenient scapegoat. He concludes by assessing the dangers faced by ethnic minorities stemming from economic resentment and social change.

目次

  • Introduction - the view from the broken bridge - a tale of two revolutions
  • "For Lack of Order Poland Stands" - religious, political, and economic foundations of Polish society
  • Polish Jews from "Serfs of the Royal Chamber" to "Serfs of the Many Chambers"
  • commerce and currency - cultural sources of entrepreneurialism
  • "How Far Behind Have We Remained" - libations, libels, and the rhetoric of reform
  • the Polish enlightenment, the four-year sejm, and the limits of reform conclusion - broken bridge revisited - the politics of productivity.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780300052480

内容説明

In this exploration of the economic roots of anti-semitism, the author traces the position of Jews in Poland from the end of the 16th century to the demise of the Polish State in 1795. The book explains why Poland was not able to modernize its backward social, economic and political system at a time when Western European countries were rapidly evolving, and shows that Jews were blamed for this failure to modernize, fueling an economic antisemitism that contributed to the Holocaust and is with us still.

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