Money, power, and influence in eighteenth-century Lithuania : the Jews on the Radziwill estates / Adam Teller
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- 9780804799874
- 0804799873
- Kesef, koaḥ, ṿe-hashpaʻah. English
- Radziwill family
- Radziwill family
- Jews -- Lithuania -- History -- 18th century
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Latifundio -- Lithuania -- History -- 18th century
- Lithuania -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
- Lithuania (Grand Duchy) -- History -- 18th century
- Latifundia -- Lituanie -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- Jewish
- Ethnic relations
- Jews
- Jews -- Economic conditions
- Latifundio
- Europe -- Lithuania (Grand Duchy)
- Lithuania
- 1700-1799
- 305.892/404793 23
- DS135.L5 T4513 2016eb
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"An earlier version of this work was published in Hebrew under the title Kesef, koaḥ, ṿe-hashpaʻah."
It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he shows that economic success did not necessarily come through any innate entrepreneurial skills, but through identifying and exploiting economic niches in the pre-modern economy--in particular, the monopoly on the sale of grain alcohol.Jewish economic activity was a key factor in the development of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it greatly enhanced the incomes, and thereby the social and political status, of the noble magnates, including the powerful Radziwiłł family. In turn, with the magnate's backing, Jews were able to leverage their own economic success into high status in estate society. Over time, relations within Jewish society began to change, putting less value on learning and pedigree and more on wealth and connections with the estate owners. This groundbreaking book exemplifies how the study of Jewish economic history can shed light on a crucial mechanism of Jewish social integration. In the Polish-Lithuanian setting, Jews were simultaneously a despised religious minority and key economic players, with a consequent standing that few could afford to ignore
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Jewish settlement on the estates -- Jews and Jewish communities in the urban economy -- The economic institutions of the estates -- Jews as estate leaseholders : the rise and fall of the Ickowicz brothers -- Arendarze : Jewish lessees of monopoly rights -- Jews and trade in the estate economy.
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