“The word ‘Jew’ has several meanings in relation to commerce, but almost all negative”: on the evolution of a projection

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Julie L. Mell The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, 2 vols. London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2018 pp. xix +336, xiii + 264 978-1-137-39776-8, 978-3-319-34185-9 £79.99, £74.99

Francesca Trivellato The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society Princeton Princeton University Press 2019 pp. xiv + 407 978-0-691-17859-2 $45