Transkulturelle Kommunikation und Verflechtung: Die judischen Wirtschaftseliten in Polen vom 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert Jurgen Heyde Author - neues Buch

English summary: In his study, Jurgen Heyde investigates the communication and interaction between Jews and non-Jews in Poland from the 14th to the 16th century. As opposed to viewing these interactions as connections between clearly defined groups, Heyde pursues a new way of viewing these social relations by placing the Jewish and non-Jewish actors at the center of the study and seeking out arenas in which their interactions were of particular importance. The focus of this book, therefore, is on politics, economics and administration: each of these fields offers their own methods of contact, communication, and the interaction between actors, and in each of these fields or arenas, differing patterns are evident. For example, the actors in the field of the political operate chiefly as representatives of social groups while the field of economics is dominated by interactions between individuals who conduct business predominantly in their own names. A particularly narrow space of interaction can be seen in the field of administration, where Jewish actors, in light of their positions, exercise executive or even legal sovereignty over non-Jewish actors. Jewish actors appear in all fields as associates of a functional elite and were appreciated as such by non-Jewish actors. One's position within the social hierarchy did not chiefly depend on the description of "Jewish" or "non-Jewish," but rather on the function, which the specific actor embraced as a member of a culturally and religiously overlapping elite within the various fields of action. German description: Jurgen Heyde untersucht in seiner Studie die Kommunikation und die Verflechtung von Juden und Nichtjuden in Polen vom 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert. Dabei beschreitet er einen neuen Weg, denn statt diese Verhaltnisse als Beziehungen zwischen deutlich abgegrenzten Gruppen zu sehen, ruckt er die judischen wie die nichtjudischen Akteure ins Zentrum und fragt nach den Arenen, in denen ihre Interaktion von besonderer Be