| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 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 -- Sanctification of the brand name : the marketing of cantor Yossele Rosenblatt / Jeffrey Shandler -- How matzah became square : Manischewitz and the development of machine-made matzah in the United States / Jonathan D. Sarna |
| Summary |
At what moments and in what ways did Jews play a central role in American capitalism? This volume addresses this question head-on by exploring Jews' impact on American capitalism as both its architects - through their participation in specific industries - and as its most vocal critics through their support of unionism and radical political movements. Essays are contributed by a variety of scholars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from .pdf information screen (EBSCO, viewed November 5, 2012) |
| Subject |
Jews -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
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Capitalism -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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Free enterprise -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Free enterprise -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Capitalism
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Jews -- Economic conditions
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Joden.
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Kapitalisme.
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Judar.
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Kapitalism -- religiösa aspekter.
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Fri företagsamhet.
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kobrin, Rebecca.
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| ISBN |
9780813553290 |
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0813553296 |
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9780813553078 |
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0813553075 |
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9780813553085 |
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0813553083 |
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9781283634595 |
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1283634597 |
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