ISBN:
9780813553085
,
9780813553078
,
9780813553290
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 311 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Year of publication:
2012
DDC:
330.12/2
Keywords:
Juden
;
Judentum
;
Entrepreneurship
;
Kapitalismus
;
USA
;
Jews Congresses Economic conditions
;
Capitalism Congresses History
;
Capitalism Congresses Religious aspects
;
Free enterprise Congresses Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Economics Congresses Religious aspects
;
Judaism
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 12 Beitr
,
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2012
,
The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism
,
Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States
,
The evolution of the Jewish garment industry, 1840-1940
,
From the rag trade to riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the building of New York's garment district
,
Success from scrap and second-hand goods: Jewish businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930
,
Despised merchandise: American Jewish liquor entrepreneurs and their prohibitionist critics
,
Blacks, Jews, and the business of race music, 1945-1955
,
Jews, Indian curios, and the westward expansion of American capitalism
,
The multicultural front: a Yiddish-socialist response to sweatshop capitalism
,
Making peace with capitalism?: Jewish Socialism enters the mainstream, 1933-1944
,
A Jewish "third way" to American capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the conservative-communitarian ideal
,
Marketing cantors in the early 20th century: the case of Yossele Rosenblatt
,
How matzah became square: Manischewitz and the development of machine-made matzah in the United States
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36968
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