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The economic history of the Jews has been considered by a wide variety of authors, including Abraham Foxman in his book Jews and Money, Gerald Krefetz in his book Jews and Money, Werner Sombart in his book The Jews and Modern Capitalism, J. J. Goldberg in his book Jewish Power, Salo Wittmayer Baron and Arcadius Kahan in their book Economic history of the Jews, Werner Eugen Mosse in his book Jews in the German Economy, Jerry Muller in his book Capitalism and the Jews, Gideon Reuveni in his book The Economy in Jewish History, Derek Penslar in his book Shylock's children: economics and Jewish identity in modern Europe, Jacob Neusner in his book The Economics of the Mishnah, and Karl Marx in his On the Jewish Question.
WHAT KIND OF A LEAD IS THIS? WHAT ARTICLE BEGINS BY LISTING SOURCES? IF THIS IS REALLY ABOUT THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JEWS, INTRODUCE THE TOPIC
The Tanakh contains passages that govern the charging of interest.
WHY SAY THIS? THE TORAH CONSISTS OF 613 LAWS A GREAT MANY OF WHICH RELATE TO ECONOMIC MATTERS. ALSO, WHY BEGIN WITH WHAT THE TANAKH SAYS, IN A HISTORY ARTICLE? THE TANAKH WAS REDACTED DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD. THE TORAH WAS EDITED DURING THE BAYLONIAN EXILE. AND IT IS NOT AT ALL CLEAR TO WHAT EXTENT IT IS REVEALING ABOUT THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF JEWS DURING THE TIME IT WAS WRITTEN. MANY HISTORIANS QUESTION WHETHER MOSES WAS EVEN A HISTORICAL PERSON. FOR AN ARTICLE ON HISTORY, THIS LINE IS WILDLY AHISTORICAL. THERE IS NO CONTEXT, SO WE DO NO KNO IF THIS IS MEANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE CONOMIC HISTORY OF JEWS DURING THE TIME OF THE KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH OR A THOUSAND YEARS LATER.
During the middle ages, Jews were excluded from many occupations. One occupation available to them was moneylending.
NO HISTORIAN WOULD MAKE SUCH A WILD GNERALIZATION. THERE WERE TIMES AND PLACES IN THE MIDDLE AGES WHEN JEWS WERE FORBIDDEN FROM MONEYLENDING, OR WHEN ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF JEWS WERE MONEYLENDERS, OR WHEN JEWISH MONEYLENDERS EXISTED BUT WERE RELATIVELY INSIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO GENTILE MONEYLENDERS. AND THERE WERE MANY TIMES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES WHEN JEWS OCCUPIED MANY OTHER OCCUPATIONS. WHY SINGLE-OUT MONEYLENDING? IT IS JUST THE ANTI-SEMITIC "POUND OF FLESH" STEREOTYPE, JEW AS SHYLOCK, "HE JEWED ME"
Modern banking in Europe and the United States was influenced by Jewish financiers, such as the Rothschild family and Warburg family, and Jews were major contributors to the establishment of important investment banks on Wall Street.
SIMPLY FALSE. MODERN BANKING EMERGED DURING THE MIDDLE AGES IN GERMANY AND ITALY WAND WERE DOMINATED BY GENTILES. JEWS WERE EXCLUDED FROM ALL THE POWERFULL WALL STREET INVESTMENT BANKS UNTIL AFTER WWII. YES, THERE WERE THESE TWO JEWISH FAMILIES OF BANKERS - BUT WHAT IS THE CONTEXT? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS? AT THE SAME TIME MOST JEWS WERE NOT BANKERS, AND MOST BANKERS WERE NOT JEWISH. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THERE WAS NO ECONOMIC HISTORY OF JEWS DURING THIS TIME, IT MEANS THAT A REAL ECONOMIC HISTORY WOULD COVER MANY OTHER THINGS. AGAIN, JUST THE JULIUS STREICHER/PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION ANTI-SEMITIC CANNARD OF THE JEWS CONTROLING BANKS.
Antisemites have promulgated myths related to money, such as the lie that Jews control the world finances, first promoted in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In the modern era, many such myths continue to be widespread in the Islamic world, and in books such as The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews published by the Nation of Islam, and on the internet.
THIS BELONGS IN AN ARTICLE ON ANTI-SEMITISM. NOLEANDER ADDS THIS HERE JUST SO HE CAN SAY HE IS BEING CRITICAL OF ANTI-SEMITISM. BUT THIS IS BS, WHEN THE CONTENTS THAT PRECEDES THIS ARE THE VERY ANTI-SEMITIC CANARDS, STEREOTYPES OF JEWS AS MONEY LENDERS! THIS PASSAGE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JEWS, IT IS JUST HIS SEEING HOW MANY PEOPLE HE CAN FOOL INTO THINKING THAT THIS ARTICLE IS "BALANCED" AND NEUTRAL BECAUSE NEXT TO ANTI-SEMITIC LIES, HE ALSO SAYS THAT ANTI-SEMITES ALSO BELIEVE THESE THINGS.