Chosen Capital : The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism /

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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...

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Other Authors: Kobrin, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fri företagsamhet.
Kapitalism > religiösa aspekter.
Judar.
Kapitalisme.
Joden.
Jews > Economic conditions
Economics > Religious aspects > Judaism
Capitalism > Religious aspects
Capitalism
Free enterprise > Religious aspects > Judaism.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Free Enterprise.
Juifs > États-Unis > Conditions economiques > Congres.
Economics > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses.
Free enterprise > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses.
Capitalism > Religious aspects > Congresses.
Capitalism > United States > History > Congresses.
Jews > United States > Economic conditions > Congresses.
Verenigde Staten.
United States
Congressen (vorm)
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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