Download or read book Port Jews written by David Cesarani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.