دانلود کتاب Economic Role of Jews in Medieval Poland

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Preface ........................................ .
Photograph of Yitzhak Schipper ................... .
Chapter 1 The Times and the Man .............. .
Under Austrian Rule ............................ .
Tarn6w at the Turn of the Century ................. .
The Initial Steps ............................... .
Involvements in Political and Cultural Actions ....... .
In Polemics with Other Historians ................. .
The Early Legal Status of Jews in Poland ........... .
A Look into the Old History of Tarn6w ............. .
NOTES ....................................... .
Chapter 2 The Origin and End of Jewish Capital ..
Sombart\'s Challenge ............................ .
Confutation of \"Old Capitalism\" .................. .
Jewish Landownership .......................... .
International and Internal Trade .................. .
The Road to Decline ............................ .
The Sponge ................................... .
The End of Jewish Capital ....................... .
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Chapter 3 Jewish Origins in Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
The Khazar Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
The Trade Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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The Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The Critique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 4 The Factual Image of Jewish
Moneylending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The Royal Charters and the Jews\' Economic Role . . . . . 118
Credit Terms and Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
The Evolution of Jewish Moneylending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The Period of Unrestricted Credit Activities . . . . . . . . 129
The Statute of Warta and Credit Decline . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Relative Reactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Chapter S Occupational Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Management and Lease oflndustries and Revenues . . . . 154
Foreign and Domestic Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Free Professions and Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Taxes and Fiscal Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter6 Economic Antagonism and Rancor . . . . . 193
The Motives and Nature of Anti-Jewish Excesses . . . . . . 194
The Struggle for Residence Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
The Struggle for Commercial Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Propitious Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The General Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
In Foreign Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
In Domestic Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
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Chapter7 The People\'s Historian .............. .
History and the Historian\'s Role .................. .
Facts and Phenomena, Interpretation and Synthesis ... .
Conjecture and Historical Theory ................. .

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Method and Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
The Economic and Sociocomparative Approach . . . . . . 245
For the Sake of the People and National Emancipation . 251
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
In the Hub of Political Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
With Students and Young Historians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
In the Ghetto of Warsaw ......................... 268
A Martyr\'s Fate and Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Map of Medieval Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Index ........................................... 301