Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe: Principles and Pressures - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Haym SoloveitchikSeries:Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationPublish date:2024-05-01Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationISBN-13:9781904113249ISBN-10:1904113249UPC:9781904113249Book Category:Social Science, History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Jewish Studies, Jewish, FinanceSize:8.90 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCAC1M5EPR
Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe: Principles and Pressures
Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from engaging in the lucrative wine trade. Wine was consumed in vast quantities in the Middle Ages, and the banks of the Rhineland hosted some of the finest vineyards in northern Europe. German Jews were, until the thirteenth century, a merchant class. How...
Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Language:EnglishPublisher:Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationISBN-13:9781904113249ISBN-10:1904113249UPC:9781904113249Book Category:Social Science, History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Jewish Studies, Jewish, FinanceSize:8.90 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCAC1M5EPR
Haym Soloveitchik is the Merkin Family Research Professor at Yeshiva University, New York, and the former director of the School of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also taught at the Sorbonne and the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has published books in Hebrew on pawnbroking and usury, Jewish involvement in the...
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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