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Chosen capital

Chosen capital the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / [electronic resource] : edited by Rebecca Kobrin. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Economics--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.
Free enterprise--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.
Capitalism--Religious aspects--Congresses.
Capitalism--History--United States--Congresses.
Jews--Economic conditions--United States--Congresses.


Electronic books.

E184.36.E25 / C49 2012

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