The Wharton School and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, in collaboration with the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, present a lecture series entitled:
Jews in Business: Between Myth and Reality
This week's lecture: Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Europe
Adam Teller, University of Haifa
Introduced by Abba M. Krieger, Robert Steinberg Professor, The Wharton School
Figures like Shakespeare's Shylock and Dickens' Fagin have tragically shaped popular images of Jews in business. But the history of Jewish involvement in commerce reveals a far more complex tale of economic opportunity and group survival. This series of three lectures, presented by scholars participating in this year's program on "Jews, Commerce, and Culture" at Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, explores the dynamic of cultural stereotyping and minority group involvement in modern commercial life.
