TY - BOOK
T1 - Jews welcome coffee
T2 - Tradition and innovation in early modern Germany
AU - Liberles, Robert
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives. Focusing on Jewish society in Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and using coffee as a key to understanding social change, Liberles analyzes German rabbinic rulings on coffee, Jewish consumption patterns, the commercial importance of coffee for various social strata, differences based on gender, and the efforts of German authorities to restrict Jewish trade in coffee, as well as the integration of Jews into society.
AB - Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives. Focusing on Jewish society in Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and using coffee as a key to understanding social change, Liberles analyzes German rabbinic rulings on coffee, Jewish consumption patterns, the commercial importance of coffee for various social strata, differences based on gender, and the efforts of German authorities to restrict Jewish trade in coffee, as well as the integration of Jews into society.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84895009999&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctv102bgt2
DO - 10.2307/j.ctv102bgt2
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84895009999
SN - 9781611682458
SN - 9781611682465
T3 - Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
BT - Jews welcome coffee
PB - Brandeis University Press
ER -