TY - BOOK AU - Kobrin,Rebecca ED - Project Muse. TI - Chosen capital: the Jewish encounter with American capitalism SN - 9780813553290 AV - E184.36.E25 C49 2012 U1 - 330.12/2 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Economics KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Congresses KW - Free enterprise KW - Capitalism KW - United States KW - History KW - Jews KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813553290/ ER -