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Author Holo, Joshua, 1971-

Title Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean economy / Joshua Holo.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-264) and index.
Summary "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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Jews -- Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions.
Jews.
Byzantine Empire.
Economic conditions.
Jews -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
History.
Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions.
Byzantine Empire -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term Geschichte 601-1204
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Holo, Joshua, 1971- Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean economy. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521856331 (DLC) 2009037741 (OCoLC)235926765
ISBN 9780511690990 (electronic book)
0511690991 (electronic book)
9780511691652 (electronic book)
0511691653 (electronic book)
9780521856331
0521856337
Standard No. 9786612651373