Preface
<span class="paragraphSection">We are delighted to present the 2016 volume of the <span style="font-style:italic;">Leo Baeck Institute Year Book</span>. In the current volume, as previously, our aim is both to provide scholars with a forum in which to present their research to an international academic audience, and to open doors to new views on German-Jewish history and culture. We are pleased to include in this volume a selection of papers from two conferences, in addition to several articles on thought-provoking and under-researched subjects. The first section, ‘German Jews in the Middle East’, explores the dynamics of Jewish immigration, whether as settlers or refugees, to Beirut, Turkey, and Palestine, while the second, ‘Survivors: Politics and Semantics of a Concept’, examines the complexities inherent in the notion of Holocaust ‘survivor’. The diverse challenges of memory, culture, and integration are the focus of the third section, ‘German-Jewish Relations at Stake’, which includes the winner of this year’s Essay Prize, Joseph Malherek. The final section, ‘Memoirs’, consists of a second instalment of Rabbi Steven Schwarzschild’s intriguing reports to the World Jewish Congress from Berlin in the years immediately following the Second World War. The third and final set of reports will appear in next year’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Year Book</span>.</span>
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List of Contributors
<span class="paragraphSection">ANZI, Menashe was awarded a PhD in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012. He was a Deputy Chair of the Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, and at the I-COR Daat Hamakom at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His areas of specialism include the modern history of Yemenite Jews and Iraqi Jews, the relationship between Jews and Muslims in Islamic cities, and trade networks and Jewish migration along the Indian Ocean.</span>
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A model of the beginnings of coinage in antiquity
<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>There have been important advances by archeologists and numismatists in recent decades in the study of the beginnings of coinage in Ionia, Lydia, and Greece before the fifth century B.C. This paper provides a model of the birth of coinage that brings these advances into a broad analysis of the subject-matter. It pulls together many factors that are often treated separately. In addition, the model yields one important new result. Contrary to popular assumption, early coinage was not highly profitable. The Lydian government and the Greek city-states provided an extremely wide array of denominations of coins in a single precious metal at considerable cost. Their willingness to bear this cost must have reflected a political strategy of promoting coinage. Such a political strategy would also be easy to explain. As a large payer and recipient of money in the form of precious metals, the government had much to gain from the spread of coinage in order to economize on transaction costs in its own affairs.</span>
“Girl Power” in Eastern Europe? The human capital development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and its determinants
<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>How did human capital develop in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and other east-central and eastern European countries? We trace the development of a specific human capital indicator during this period: numeracy. We draw upon new evidence for Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Russia, controlling for potential selectivity issues. Numeracy started at low levels, especially in Russia and, later, in Lithuania. In the mid-eighteenth century, levels in Russia began to converge to Polish levels; later, the other regions followed. We test potential determinants such as serfdom, female autonomy, nutrition, and geography. We find that female autonomy proxied by the share of young female singles had a particularly consistent positive effect. An instrumental variable regression suggests that the relationship could be causal.</span>
Numéro 2016/3 – n° 63-3 – Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 2016-3
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