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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Jews and the Mediterranean] takes aim in part at a trope in Mediterranean studies that plays up the integration of minorities across communities, with character types of cosmopolitanism, fluidity, and diversity. The papers examine what made Jews and Jewish communities distinctive, even as they interacted with their Muslim and Christian neighbors and business partners.
* Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *
Studious, erudite, and highly recommended.
* Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jewish History in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean in Jewish History / Jessica Marglin and Matthias Lehmann
1. Globalization or Culture: The Ancient Jews and the Mediterranean / Seth Schwartz
2. The New Melting Pot? Mediterraneanism and the Study of Jewish History / Jonathan Ray
3. Can we Speak of a Geographical Axis in Medieval Jewish Culture? / Andrew Berns
4. Jews and the Early Modern Mediterranean Slave Trade / Daniel Hershenzon
5. Religious Boundaries in Italy during an Era of Free Trade, 1550-1750: The Case of Livorno / Corey Tazzara
6. A Father's Consolation: Intra-Cultural Ties and Religion in a Trans-Mediterranean Jewish Commercial Network / Francesca Bregoli
7. Soap and the Making of a Short Distance Network in the Nineteenth-Century Adriatic / Constanze Kolbe
8. A Guide to the Jewish Mediterranean: Le Guide Sam and the Shaping of an Interwar Mediterranean Diaspora / Devi Mays
9. A New Myth of Coexistence? The Jewish Mediterranean Dream and the Three Ages of Nostalgia / Clémence Boulouque
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