The Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their

Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins o

In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneuria

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religiou

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal rest