Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History -- PART I. NETWORKS AND NICHES: THE CREATION OF JEWISH ECONOMIC POWER -- Chapter 1. Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila: Jewish Moneylending and the Struggle Against Restraint of Trade in Early Modern Rome -- Chapter 2. Contraband for the Catholic King: Jews of the French Pyrenees in the Tobacco Trade and Spanish State Finance -- Chapter 3. Daily Business or an Affair of Consequence? Credit, Reputation, and Bankruptcy Among Jewish Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Central Europe -- Chapter 4. Jewish Quarters: The Economics of Segregation in the Kingdom of Poland -- Chapter 5. From Moses to Moses: Jews, Clothing, and Colonial Commerce -- Chapter 6. Brokering a Rock 'n' Roll International: Jewish Record Men in America and Britain -- PART II. PHILANTHROPY, MONEY, AND THE DEPLOYMENT OF POWER IN JEWISH ECONOMIC HISTORY -- Chapter 7. The "West" and the Rest: Jewish Philanthropy and Globalization to c. 1880 -- Chapter 8. Rebels Without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War -- Chapter 9. Orthodoxy Through Diamonds: Jewish Life in Antwerp after World War II -- Chapter 10. Faith Meets Politics and Resources: Reassessing Modern Transnational Jewish Activism -- Chapter 11. Anxieties of Distinctiveness: Walter Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism and the Politics of Jewish Economic History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- List of Contributors.