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Has Abstract The role played by moneylending, relative to other Jewish occupations, fluctuated with the times in Eastern Europe. Until the middle of the fifteenth century, moneylending was by far the most dominant profession in which Polish Jews, for example, were employed, as members of the aristocracy would use the services of Jews as sources for both income and credit. The public’s attitude toward these lenders was ambivalent. On the one hand, lenders were always in demand, thanks to their ability to help those in need of a loan; on the other hand, they aroused feelings of tension and of discord by the very fact that they demanded repayments of loans, and profited by collecting interest (or, as it was sometimes disparagingly referred to, usury). yivo
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