TY  - BOOK
ED  - Kobrin, Rebecca
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Chosen capital: the Jewish encounter with American capitalism
PB  - Rutgers Univ. Press
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]
KW  - Juden
KW  - Judentum
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Kapitalismus
KW  - USA
KW  - Jews
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - History
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Economics
AB  - 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
SN  - 9780813553085
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by Rebecca Kobrin
ID  - 66930347X
ER  -