Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings
of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period.
Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish
community and integrated in society at large, this economy forces a
revision of Jewish history in the region. Paradoxically, the two
distinct economic orientations, inward and outward, simultaneously
advanced both the integration of the Jews into the larger Byzantine
economy and their segregation as a self-contained body economic. Dr
Holo finds that the Jews routinely leveraged their internal, even
exclusive, systems of law and culture to break into - occasionally
to dominate - Byzantine markets. In doing so, they challenge our
concept of Diaspora life as a balance between the two competing
impulses of integration and segregation. The success of this
enterprise, furthermore, qualifies the prevailing claim of Jewish
economic decline during the Commercial Revolution.
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