On the word of a Jew : religion, reliability, and the dynamics of trust
La 4e de couv. indique : "What, if anything, does religion have to do with reliability ? When and how did religious difference matter when it came to trusting the word of another ? In today's world, we take it for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to acting or engag...
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[Bloomington, Indiana] :
Indiana University Press
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Sommario:
- P. 17
- Oaths, vows, and trust in the Bible / Robert S. Kawashima
- P. 36
- "And in most of their business transactions they rely on this" : some reflections on Jews and oaths in the commercial arena in Medieval Europe / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
- P. 62
- The oath of a Jew in the Thirteenth Century English legal context / Joshua Curk
- P. 81
- What is an infidel ? : Jewish oaths and Jewish history in the making of English trust and tolerance / Mitchell B. Hart
- P. 101
- Trusting Adolphe Crémieux : Jews and Republicans in Nineteenth-Century France / Lisa Leff
- P. 119
- "A kind of republic and neutral nation" : commerce, credit, and conspiracy in early Modern Europe / Joshua Teplitsky
- P. 138
- Jewish peddlers and Non-Jewish customers in the New World : between profit and trust / Hasia Diner
- P. 158
- Belonging and trustworthiness : Jewish businessmen in the public rhetoric around the "Trustworthy businessman" in Post-World War I Germany / Stefanie Fischer
- P. 181
- The voice of a Jew ? Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogi contra Iudaeos and the question of true conversion / Nina Caputo
- P. 201
- A return to credibility ? The rehabilitation of repentant apostates in Medieval Ashkenaz / Rachel Furst
- P. 222
- The Jewish physician as respondent, confidant, and proxy : the case of Marcus Herz and Immanuel Kant / Robert Leventhal
- P. 247
- Perspectives from the periphery : the East India company's Jewish Sepoys, Anglo-Jewry, and the image of "the Jew" / Mitch Numark
- P. 276
- Between honor and authenticity : Zionism as Theodor Herzl's life-project / Derek Jonathan Penslar
- P. 297
- The most trusted Jew in America : Jon Stewart's earnestness / Shaina Hammerman