Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and Medieval European Economic History
Julie L. Mell
This essay discusses the intellectual contributions of five Jewish émigrés to study European economic history. In midst war years, these intellectuals reconceptualized premodern history and established predominant postwar paradigms. The form three distinct groups defined by identity professional identity. first two (Guido Kisch Toni Oelsner) identified as Jews worked historians. second (Michal Postan Robert Lopez) Jews, but last (Karl Polanyi) was only origin, a Christian socialist, an journalist, then in worker's education late life professor economics. All dealt with origin capitalism, different veins: celebrated Oelsner contested hegemonic academic discourse that linked birth capitalism Jews. Lopez flip-side this discourse, presumption medieval Europe pre-capitalist par excellence. doing so, they helped construct current paradigm high commercial revolution. Polanyi historical narratives described Free Market natural growth life. explores grounding paradigms shared crucible exile émigrés. context helps illuminate significance their uncovering webs meaning which work suspended.
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