Chosen capital
Subtitle: the Jewish encounter with American capitalism
By: edited by Rebecca Kobrin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813553078; 9780813553085; 9780813553290
Subjects: Judaism; Jews; Economics; Capitalism; Economic conditions; Congresses; Free enterprise; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / Rebecca Kobrin; title: Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States / Ira Katznelson; title: The evolution of the Jewish garment industry, 1840-1940 / Phyllis Dillon and Andrew Godley; title: From the rag trade to riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the building of New York's garment district / Andrew Dolkart; title: Success from scrap and second-hand goods: Jewish businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930 / Jonathan Z.S. Pollack; title: Despised merchandise: American Jewish liquor entrepreneurs and their prohibitionist critics / Marni Davis; title: Blacks, Jews, and the business of race music, 1945-1955 / Jonathan Karp; title: Jews, Indian curios, and the westward expansion of  American capitalism / David Koffman; title: The multicultural front: a Yiddish-socialist response to sweatshop capitalism / Daniel Katz; title: Making peace with capitalism?: Jewish Socialism enters the mainstream, 1933-1944 / Daniel Soyer; title: A Jewish "third way" to American capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the conservative-communitarian ideal / Eli Lederhendler; title: Marketing cantors in the early 20th century: the case of Yossele Rosenblatt / Jeffrey Shandler; title: How matzah became square: Manischewitz and the development of machine-made matzah in the United States / Jonathan Sarna.