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The Business Life of the Jews in Babylon from the 3rd to the 6th Century

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1. Scope & Method of Thesis
2. Bibliography
3. General Introduction
4. Markets
5. Taxation
6. Jews & Non-Jews in Business
7. Banking & Money-lending (Usury, the collection of debts, bankruptcy, and the sale of bonds)
8. Labour
9. Agriculture
10. The Trades & Professions of Babylonian Jewry
11. Trades & Professions – Health and Dress
12. Trades & Professions – Building, Furnishing, etc.
13. Trades & Professions – Traces connected with food, drink and the household
14. Transport
15. Small Trading
16. Woman in Business
17. Religious Influences
18. Honesty & Dishonesty in Business and Immoral Occupations
19. Weights, Measures, Prices & Values
20. Conclustions
21. Appendix

The Business Life of the Jews in Babylon from 3rd to the 6th Century

Louis Jacobs’ PhD Dissertation

Louis Jacobs gained his rabbinical ordination from Gateshead, at the age of 21.

He occupied his first position at the Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (Munk’s Synagogue) as assistant rabbi, while at the same time enrolling at University College London for a B.A. There, he was first exposed to academic scholarship. Under the tutelage of Siegfried Stein, he started reading the works of Wissenschaft scholars and their successors: Krochmal, Ginzberg, Frankel, Schechter and others.

He continued his studies upon moving to Manchester, when he assumed the pulpit of the Central Synagogue in 1948, and finally received his doctorate in 1952, completing a dissertation on The Business Life of Jews in Babylon.

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