Projektnummer

N000991

Zusammenfassung

In the Russian Empire, Jews were among the groups most associated with commerce and entrepreneurship. Indeed, many Jewish merchants were visible actors in the Russian business world, some of them partially integrated into Russia's upper classes. Yet, this association with commerce was also one of the factors that led to Jews' outsider status in imperial Russian society. Previous research has often presupposed an inherent connection between Jewish economic, communal and religious practices, and capitalism. The proposed project presents capitalist techniques of commerce as a novelty in t...