TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holo,Joshua
TI  - Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean economy
SN  - 9780511690990
AV  - DS135.M43 H65 2009eb
U1  - 330.9495/02089924 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Empire byzantin
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Histoire
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - Comparative
KW  - Economic History
KW  - Economic history
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wirtschaftsgeschichte
KW  - stw
KW  - Juden
KW  - Byzantinisches Reich
KW  - Mittelmeerraum
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-264) and index; Byzantine-Jewish economic history -- Byzantine Jews throughout the Mediterranean : fluidity and exchange -- The inner economy of the Jewish communities -- The integrated Jewish economy -- Byzantine-Jewish trade and the commercial revolution -- Conclusion : a new perspective on Byzantine economic history
N2  - "Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in society at large, this economy forces a revision of Jewish history in the region. Paradoxically, the two distinct economic orientations, inward and outward, simultaneously advanced both the integration of the Jews into the larger Byzantine economy and their segregation as a self-contained body economic. Dr Holo finds that the Jews routinely leveraged their internal, even exclusive, systems of law and culture to break into - occasionally to dominate - Byzantine markets. In doing so, they challenge our concept of Diaspora life as a balance between the two competing impulses of integration and segregation. The success of this enterprise, furthermore, qualifies the prevailing claim of Jewish economic decline during the Commercial Revolution"--Provided by publisher
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