Title: Merchant princes : an intimate history of Jewish families who built great department stores /
Authors: Harris, Leon A.
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Jews United States Biography.; Jewish merchants United States Biography.; Department stores United States; Department stores United States History.; United States Biography.
Abstract: "Merchant princes reveals the exciting stories of many of America's great Jewish storekeeping families ..."--Jacket.
Contents: The Filenes of Boston -- The Strauses of New York-five generations -- The Gimbels, Albert M. Greenfield, and other brotherly lovers -- The Kaufmanns of Pittsburgh -- The Goldsmiths of Memphis -- The Riches of Atlanta -- Dallas and the Marci -- The wild Southwest -- The Jewish argonauts of San Francisco -- The Meiers and Franks of Oregon -- Sears, Roebuck and the Rosenwalds -- Legions of Lazari, or how Fred Lazarus, jr., ate up everybody else.