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