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Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica Roitman

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The Same but Different?

Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica Roitman

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this study challenges the historiographical argument that the Sephardim, and indeed, a variety of religio-ethnic groups, achieved their commercial success by relying on geographically dispersed family members and fellow ethnics. The book’s findings challenge the reigning understanding that commercial success stemmed from endogamous business relationships and socio-cultural insularity. The book demonstrates that the most successful Sephardic merchants of early seventeenth century Amsterdam built their fortunes not thanks to familial or diasporic connections, but through “loose ties,” economic networks comprised of non-Sephardim. Focusing on three of the most prominent Sephardic merchants in Amsterdam, and a random sampling of other Sephardi merchants, the book reveals a multi-ethnic and multi-religious trade network of non-Jewish merchants.

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BRILL

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9004202773

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9789004202771

Vulnerability and Valour

A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities

By: Jessica M. Keady

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Vulnerability and Valour

A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities

By: Jessica M. Keady

Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her analysis Keady shows that it was not only women who could be viewed as an impure problem, but also that men shared these characteristics as well. The first framework adopted by Keady is masculinity studies, specifically Raewyn Connell's hegemonic masculinity, which Keady applies to the Rule of the Community (in its 1QS form) and the War Scroll (in its 1QM form), to demonstrate the vulnerable and uncontrollable aspects of ordinary male impurities. Secondly, the embodied and empowered aspects of impure women are revealed through an application of embodiment theories to selected passages from 4QD (4Q266 and 4Q272) and 4QTohorot A (4Q274). Thirdly, sociological insights from Susie Scott's understanding of the everyday - through the mundane, the routine and the breaking of rules - reveal how impurity disrupts the constructions of daily life. Keady applies Scott's three conceptual features for understanding the everyday to the Temple Scroll (11QTa) and the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) to demonstrate the changing dynamics between ordinary impure males and impure females. Underlying each of these three points is the premise that gender and purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls communities are performative, dynamic and constantly changing.

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220

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567672255

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9780567672254

Jews and the Mediterranean

By: Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin

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Jews and the Mediterranean

By: Matthias B. Lehmann,Jessica M. Marglin

A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other. Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume emphasize human agency and culture over the length of Mediterranean history. This collection draws attention to what made Jewish people distinctive and warns against facile notions of Mediterranean connectivity, diversity, fluidity, and hybridity, presenting a new assessment of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean.

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238

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Indiana University Press

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0253047994

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9780253047991

Law Express Question and Answer: EU Law

By: Jessica Guth,Timothy Connor

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Law Express Question and Answer: EU Law

By: Jessica Guth,Timothy Connor

From the BESTSELLING Law Express revision series. Law Express Question and Answer: EU Law is designed to ensure you get the most marks for every answer you write by improving your understanding of what examiners are looking for, helping you to focus in on the question being asked and showing you how to make even a strong answer stand out.

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269

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Pearson UK

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1292063645

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9781292063645

The Same But Different?

Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica V. Roitman

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The Same But Different?

Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica V. Roitman

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with non-Sephardim.

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The Same but Different?

The Same but Different?

Vulnerability and Valour

Vulnerability and Valour

Jews and the Mediterranean

Jews and the Mediterranean

Law Express Question and Answer: EU Law

Law Express Question and Answer: EU Law

The Same But Different?

The Same But Different?

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