Chosen Capital : : The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism / / ed. by Rebecca Kobrin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Davis, Marni,; Dillon, Phyllis,; Dolkart, Andrew S.,; Godley, Andrew,; Karp, Jonathan,; Katz, Daniel,; Katznelson, Ira,; Kobrin, Rebecca,; Koffman, David S.,; Lederhendler, Eli,; Pollack, Jonathan Z. S.,; Sarna, Jonathan D.,; Shandler, Jeffrey,; Soyer, Daniel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Davis, Marni.; Dillon, Phyllis.; Dolkart, Andrew.; Godley, Andrew.; Karp, Jonathan.; Katz, Daniel.; Katznelson, Ira.; Koffman, David S.; Lederhendler, Eli.; Litvak, Olga.; Pollack, Jon.; Sarna, Jonathan.; Shandler, Jeffrey.; Soyer, Daniel.; Stein, Sarah.
• HerausgeberIn: Kobrin, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 22 photographs

At which moments and in which ways did Jews play a central role in the development of American capitalism? Many popular writers address the intersection of Jews and capitalism, but few scholars, perhaps fearing this question's anti-Semitic overtones, have pondered it openly. Chosen Capital repr...

Table of Contents

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