"Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world;...

Introduction : longing, belonging and the making of Jewish consumer culture / Nils Roemer and Gideon Reuveni -- Jewish consumer culture in historical and contemporary perspective / David Biale -- German-Jewish spatial cultures : consuming and refashioning Jewish belonging in Berlin, 1890-1910 /...

This new-fangled age -- From ancient constitution to mosaic republic -- A new system of civil and commercial government -- The natural relation of things -- A state within a state -- The Israelites and the aristocracy -- Jews, commerce, and history -- Capitalism and the Jews -- Afterward :...