Quotes About Moneylending

Back then, being a pawnbroker-merchant was one of the only career options available to Jews. Thanks to a papal decree centuries earlier, usury laws forbade Christians from lending for profit. So Jews took over the moneylending trades, becoming pawnbrokers, small trade merchants, and wizards of finance.

He made money in pawnbroking and moneylending, which is never nice, but also traded in goat skins – which is at least unusual.