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Mediterranean Exchanges: A Response to Seth Schwartz’s Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?

Mediterranean Exchanges: A Response to Seth Schwartz’s Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? T HE J EWISH Q UA R T E R LY R EVIEW , Vol. 102, No. 4 (Fall 2012) 491–512 Mediterranean Exchanges: A Response to Seth Schwartz’s Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? STEVEN WEITZMAN Stanford University I F Y OU H AVE T H E O CC A S IO N to read Seth Schwartz’s most recent book, don’t make the mistake that I did and assume that the word ‘‘Medi- terranean’’ refers to a body of water. There is nothing here about seafar- ing, trade routes, or piracy. The term ‘‘Mediterranean’’ as Schwartz uses it is a reference not so much to a specific locale but to a certain way of doing history, an approach associated with Fernand Braudel’s The Medi- terranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Paris, 1949). The scholarship inspired by Braudel’s work seeks to understand the his- tory of the various peoples living around the Mediterranean, but what has come to distinguish it is not its focus on the Mediterranean Sea per se but an ecological/anthropological approach that stresses the factors that held otherwise diverse peoples together in a shared transethnic, transreligious culture—the ethos and social practices they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Mediterranean Exchanges: A Response to Seth Schwartz’s Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?

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Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 102 (4) – Oct 31, 2012
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T HE J EWISH Q UA R T E R LY R EVIEW , Vol. 102, No. 4 (Fall 2012) 491–512 Mediterranean Exchanges: A Response to Seth Schwartz’s Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? STEVEN WEITZMAN Stanford University I F Y OU H AVE T H E O CC A S IO N to read Seth Schwartz’s most recent book, don’t make the mistake that I did and assume that the word ‘‘Medi- terranean’’ refers to a body of water. There is nothing here about seafar- ing, trade routes, or piracy. The term ‘‘Mediterranean’’ as Schwartz uses it is a reference not so much to a specific locale but to a certain way of doing history, an approach associated with Fernand Braudel’s The Medi- terranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Paris, 1949). The scholarship inspired by Braudel’s work seeks to understand the his- tory of the various peoples living around the Mediterranean, but what has come to distinguish it is not its focus on the Mediterranean Sea per se but an ecological/anthropological approach that stresses the factors that held otherwise diverse peoples together in a shared transethnic, transreligious culture—the ethos and social practices they

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Published: Oct 31, 2012

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