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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern Western european and Jewish record. But the subject matter has been dealt with less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In such a booklet Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates misconception from truth to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and intricate - therefore ambivalent. Sketching on economic, sociable, politics, and intellectual record from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in which considering capitalism and taking into consideration the Jews have absent together in Western european thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been connected. The book points out why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the list of fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The booklet shows how the ancient proven fact that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of money and, inevitably, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the booklet traces how the traditional position of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both motivated their financial success and made them specifically susceptible to the cultural nationalism of the 19th and 20th generations. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misinterpreted subject matter, Capitalism and the Jews will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the present day destiny of the Jews, or the ways in which the storyline of capitalism and the Jews has influenced the annals of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to your own.
