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Jews Welcome Coffee [electronic resource]

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A lively look at how coffee affected Jewish life in early modern Germany

Title Jews Welcome Coffee [electronic resource] : Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany / Robert Liberles.
Publisher Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Series Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: What Should One Drink?
1 | Coffee's Social Dimensions
2 | Coffee and Controversies in Germany
3 | The Rabbis Welcome Coffee
4 | Coffee in Everyday Life: Consumption, Petty Trade, and Religious Life
5 | It Is Not Permitted, Therefore It Is Forbidden: Controversies over the Jewish Coffee Trade
6 | If Only They Had Worn Their Cocardes: Jews, Coffeehouses, and Social Integration
Epilogue: Tradition and Innovation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
Extent 1 online resource (191 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2012
National Library system number 997010713105105171
MARC RECORDS
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