This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Jewish history has been extensively studied from social, political, religious, and intellectual perspectives, but the history of Jewish consumption and leisure

By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the

It is easy to dismiss advertising as simply the background chatter of modern life, often annoying, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately meaningless. But Kerri P.

Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins o