Respectability Tested Male Ideals, Sexuality, and Honor in Early Modern Ashkenazi Jewry

Veith Kahn was everything a seventeenth-century Jewish man was not supposed to be. In business, he was no more than an agent for other members of the Frankfurt Jewish community. He sporadically dealt in the linen trade, and his attempts to mix with the merchant elite proved disastrous. In fact, Kahn...

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Published inJewish Masculinities p. 23
Main Author ANDREAS GOTZMANN
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Indiana University Press 18.07.2012
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Business
Christianity
Clergy
Clothing industry
Communities
Consumer goods industries
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Gender identity
Gender studies
Human populations
Human societies
Industrial sectors
Industry
Institutional buildings
Interpersonal relations
Jewish culture
Jewish peoples
Jewish studies
Manufacturing industries
Masculinity
Men
Persons
Population studies
Practical theology
Psychology
Rabbis
Religion
Religious buildings
Respect
Social groups
Social psychology
Social sciences
Sociology
Spiritual belief systems
Spiritual leaders
Synagogues
Theology
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Summary:Veith Kahn was everything a seventeenth-century Jewish man was not supposed to be. In business, he was no more than an agent for other members of the Frankfurt Jewish community. He sporadically dealt in the linen trade, and his attempts to mix with the merchant elite proved disastrous. In fact, Kahn seemed cursed with bad fortune. He declared bankruptcy at least twice in his lifetime, when he lost his businesses in Hamburg and in Amsterdam. According to his own account, Kahn was so aggressively hounded by creditors that he was forced to leave Frankfurt. Kahn was captured after an attempt
ISBN:0253002133
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