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The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.

Jews --- Jewish merchants --- Sociology, Urban. --- City and town life --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Merchants, Jewish --- Merchants --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Civilization, Jewish --- Jewish civilization --- Civilization, Semitic --- Civilization. --- History --- Commerce --- History.