Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

by Robert Liberles

Book Overview

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"