European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750

Jonathan I. Israel

• 24 oktober 1985
• 9780198219286

Samenvatting:

Joint winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History. ...an important book ... will be of extreme value of to all students of early modern Europe...' Lionel Kochan in British Book News .



Joint winner of the Wolfson Literary Award for History. This is the first survey history of Jewish life and culture in early modern Europe to concentrate on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a radically new phase in Jewish history. Professor Israel argues that the rapidly expanding Jewish role in political and economic spheres in much of Europe from the 1570s was the first fundamental emancipation of European Jewry.