%0 Book %T Chosen capital: the Jewish encounter with American capitalism %E Kobrin, Rebecca %D 2012 %I Rutgers Univ. Press %C New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] %@ 9780813553085 %G English %F 66930347X %O ed. by Rebecca Kobrin %O Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 12 Beitr %O Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2012 %X 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 %L 330.12/2 %K Juden %K Judentum %K Entrepreneurship %K Kapitalismus %K USA %K Jews %K United States %K Economic conditions %K Capitalism %K History %K Religious aspects %K Free enterprise %K Judaism %K Economics %9 Text