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Chosen capital : the Jewish encounter with American capitalism
- Title
- Chosen capital : the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / edited by Rebecca Kobrin.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012], ©2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Kobrin, Rebecca.
- Description
- ix, 311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / Rebecca Kobrin -- Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States / Ira Katznelson -- The evolution of the Jewish garment industry, 1840-1940 / Phyllis Dillon and Andrew Godley -- From the rag trade to riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the building of New York's garment district / Andrew Dolkart -- Success from scrap and second-hand goods: Jewish businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930 / Jonathan Z.S. Pollack -- Despised merchandise: American Jewish liquor entrepreneurs and their prohibitionist critics / Marni Davis -- Blacks, Jews, and the business of race music, 1945-1955 / Jonathan Karp -- Jews, Indian curios, and the westward expansion of American capitalism / David Koffman -- The multicultural front: a Yiddish-socialist response to sweatshop capitalism / Daniel Katz -- Making peace with capitalism?: Jewish Socialism enters the mainstream, 1933-1944 / Daniel Soyer -- A Jewish "third way" to American capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the conservative-communitarian ideal / Eli Lederhendler -- Marketing cantors in the early 20th century: the case of Yossele Rosenblatt / Jeffrey Shandler -- How matzah became square: Manischewitz and the development of machine-made matzah in the United States / Jonathan Sarna.
- ISBN
- 9780813553078 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813553075 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813553085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813553083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813553290 (e-book)
- 0813553296 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2011038426
- 40021206325
- OCLC
- ocn755004255
- 755004255
- SCSB-5649862
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries