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Chosen Capital The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism

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ISBN-10: 0813553083

ISBN-13: 9780813553085

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rebecca Kobrin, Jonathan Sarna, Daniel Soyer, Jeffrey Shandler, Jon Pollack

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At what moments and in what ways did Jews play a central role in American capitalism? Perhaps fears of this question’s anti-Semitic overtones have discouraged scholars from pondering this query even though many are quick to comment upon the speed with which Jews moved up America’s class ladder.Chosen Capitaladdresses 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. Chosen Capitalis far from another celebratory work on great businessmen of the American Jewish past. Rather, by focusing on the era when…    
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List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History. He has written, edited or co-edited more than twenty-five books, including American Judaism: A History, winner of the “Jewish Book of the Year” award from the Jewish Book Council.

Daniel Soyer is associate professor of history at Fordham University. He is the author of Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939.

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judiac Studies at New York University. She has taught American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and at Johns Hopkins.Jeffrey Shandler is assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.

Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography and Transliteration
Reframing the Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism
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Two Exceptionalisms: Points of Departure for Studies of Capitalism and Jews in the United States
Jewish Niches in the American Economy
The Evolution of the Jewish Garment Industry, 1840-1940
From the Rag Trade to Riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the Development of New York's Garment District
Success from Scrap and Secondhand Goods: Jewish Businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930
Despised Merchandise: American Jewish Liquor Entrepreneurs and Their Critics
Blacks, Jews, and the Business of Race Music, 1945-1955
Jews, American Indian Curios, and the Westward Expansion of Capitalism
Jews and the Politics of American Capitalism
The Multicultural Front: A Yiddish Socialist Response to Sweatshop Capitalism
Making Peace with Capitalism? Jewish Socialism Enters the Mainstream, 1933-1944
A Jewish "Third Way" to American Capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the Conservative-Communitarian Ideal
Selling Judaism: Capitalism and Reshaping of Jewish Religious Culture
Sanctification of the Brand Name: The Marketing of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt
How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States
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