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Article: Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1998
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Benjamin Arbel. Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 14.) Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1995. xi + 237 pp. $77.50. ISBN:90-04-10057-1.
The two predominant images of the Jew in pre-modern Europe tend to center around the merchant and moneylender, and often the stereotype is better known than the historical reality. Benjamin Arbel's elaborately researched Trading Nations: Jews and Venetians in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean, based on a wide range of Italian archival documents and contemporary Hebrew sources, is therefore especially important and welcome.
Five of the book's ...