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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is scrupulously documented allowing the reader to follow up with further information on any given aspect of this topic. Highly recommended for all adult and secondary school Judaica collections
* AJL Reviews *
At a time when questions of Jewish "(dis)loyalty" are once again appearing in the headlines, this timely volume offers directions to begin untangling the historial roots and trajectories of the dynamics of trust
-- Noam Sienna * Church History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Word of a Jew, or Trusting Jewish History / Nina Caputo and Mitchell B. Hart
Section One: To Swear an Oath
1. Oaths, Vows, and Trust in the Bible / Robert S. Kawashima
2. "And in most of their business transactions they rely on this": Some Reflections on Jews and Oaths in the Commercial Arena in Medieval Europe / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
3. The Oath of a Jew in the Thirteenth Century English Legal Context / Joshua Curk
4. What is an Infidel?: Jewish Oaths and Jewish History in the Making of English Trust and Tolerance / Mitchell B. Hart
5. Trusting Adolphe Crémieux: Jews and Republicans in Nineteenth-Century France / Lisa Leff
Section Two: The Business of Trust
6. "A kind of republic and neutral nation:" Commerce, Credit, and Conspiracy in Early Modern Europe / Joshua Teplitsky
7. Jewish Peddlers and Non-Jewish Customers in the New World: Between Profit and Trust / Hasia Diner
8. Belonging and Trustworthiness: Jewish Businessmen in the Public Rhetoric around the "Trustworthy Businessman" in Post-World War I Germany / Stefanie Fischer
Section Three: Intimacy of Trust
9. The Voice of a Jew? Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogi contra judaeos and the Question of True Conversion / Nina Caputo
10. A Return to Credibility? The Rehabilitation of Repentant Apostates in Medieval Ashkenaz / Rachel Furst
11. The Jewish Physician as Respondent, Confidant, and Proxy: The Case of Marcus Herz and Immanuel Kant / Robert Leventhal
Section Four: The Politics of Trust
12. Perspectives from the Periphery: The East India Company's Jewish Sepoys, Anglo-Jewry, and the Image of "the Jew" / Mitch Numark
13. Between Honor and Authenticity: Zionism as Theodor Herzl's Life-Project / Derek Jonathan Penslar
14. The Most Trusted Jew in America: Jon Stewart's Earnestness / Shaina Hammerman
