@Book{66930347X,
editor="Kobrin, Rebecca",
title="Chosen capital: the Jewish encounter with American capitalism",
year="2012",
publisher="Rutgers Univ. Press",
address="New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]",
keywords="Juden; Judentum; Entrepreneurship; Kapitalismus; USA; Jews; United States; Economic conditions; Capitalism; History; Religious aspects; Free enterprise; Judaism; Economics",
contents="The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism Rebecca Kobrin",
abstract="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",
note="ed. by Rebecca Kobrin",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 12 Beitr",
note="Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2012",
isbn="9780813553085",
language="English"
}