Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

by Robert Liberles

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1611682452

ISBN13:9781611682458

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Brandeis University Press

Length:190 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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Cooking Cooking History Social Science Social Sciences

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