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A report is presented from an August 14-15, 2012 conference in Tübingen, Germany on the history of German imperial cities in the late Middle Ages. Topics of discussion included the role of Jewish financiers in the territorial expansion of Zürich and Bern, Switzerland and Ulm, Germany in the 14th century, and the military history of the territorial expansion of Bern, Switzerland in the Middle Ages.

The first part of the present study is a brief outline of the interwar economic environment of Bihor county as a necessary framework for revealing the contribution of Jewish capital to its evolution. Later on, we highlight in the form of a monograph all the factories (from different fields: food and manufacturing industry, chemical, pharmaceutical industry, etc., whose products had a secure internal market) belonging to Oradea Jews who proved to be efficient entrepreneurs and whom, through their activity, created representative elements for the local economy. In fact, the industry of interwar Oradea and Bihor County was primarily represented by Jewish entrepreneurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is an essay on the topic of court Jews, particularly as represented by Feidel David, an agent of the court of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Germany in the 18th century. It presents aspects of his life and business activities among Ashkenazi Jewish communities and how he facilitated the rise of the court Jew Meyer Maschke Rothschild and influenced successful economic development in the court of Kassel, Germany.

The article focuses on the depiction of the relationship between Jews and courts in various literary works. It claims that the prescriptive and descriptive writings about courts manifest exemplary behaviors, conduct, and speech in the Jewish society. It also considers historian Fritz Baer's archival document which took account on court Jews. Moreover, it dealt on author Rita Costa Gomes' research on the late medieval Portuguese court society regarding the indistinctness of medieval courts.

Examines the scale and nature of the business activities of Jewish women in medieval England. History of the Jewish community of medieval England; Part played by the Jews in the medieval economy; List of famous Jewish female financiers during the period.

The article deals with the loans provided by Jewish bankers to Russia in the 1890s, specifically the Rothschild-Bleichröder deal. But when the very day the deal was reported, it was learned that mass expulsions of Jews from Moscow, Russia had been decreed, which resulted to the decision of the Rothschilds to withdrew the deal. It is noted that the Jewish press insisted that Jewish financiers should be wary in participating in these kind of loans with any idea that they are going to hold Russia to any promise of better treatment for the Jews.