Title Peddlers, merchants, and manufacturers : how Jewish entrepreneurs built economy and community in upcountry South Carolina / Diane Catherine Vecchio

Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Cover -- PEDDLERS, MERCHANTS, AND MANUFACTURES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Lure of South Carolina -- CHAPTER 2 Foundations of Jewish Enterprise in the Upcountry -- CHAPTER 3 Creating Community -- CHAPTER 4 Jewish Business and Industry in the Interwar Years -- CHAPTER 5 The Promise of American Life -- CHAPTER 6 The Upcountry Goes to War -- CHAPTER 7 Jewish Garment Manufacturing -- CHAPTER 8 Jewish-Black Relations -- CHAPTER 9 The Jewish Role in a New Economy -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Provides a corrective to a neglected aspect of Jewish history in the SouthDiane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in what we today call Upstate South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, Upcountry South Carolina was a center of textile manufacturing and new business opportunities that drew entrepreneurial energy to the region. Previous histories of economic development in the South Carolina Piedmont have tended to overlook the significance of Jewish involvement and instead focused on northern investment and low labor costs. Working with a rich set of oral histories, memoirs, and traditional historical documents, Vecchio provides an important corrective to the history of manufacturing in South Carolina, and that revision is part of a large retelling of southern Jewish history, one that adds social and cultural dimensions to the traditional economic story. Vecchio explores Jewish community development, how Jewish business leaders also became civic leaders and affected social, political, and cultural life in what we now call the mountainous Upcountry. Their impact in all facets of life across the Upstate is important to understanding the growth of today's Spartanburg-Greenville corridor"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2023) Subject Entrepreneurship -- South Carolina Jews -- South Carolina -- Economic conditions Jewish peddlers -- South Carolina Entrepreneurship Jewish peddlers Jews -- Economic conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies South Carolina Form Electronic book LC no. 2023037650 ISBN 1643364537 9781643364537

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