03409nam a2200505Ka 4500 ocn816050019 OCoLC 20200709055620.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121106s2012 njua ob 101 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780813553290 (electronic bk.) 0813553296 (electronic bk.) 9780813553078 (electronic bk.) 0813553075 (electronic bk.) 9780813553085 (electronic bk.) 0813553083 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)816050019 494302 (N$T) n-us--- E184.36.E25 C49 2012eb BUS 029000 bisacsh 330.12/2 23 N$TA Chosen capital [electronic resource] : the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / edited by Rebecca Kobrin. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. 1 online resource (ix, 311 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on online resource; title from .pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 5, 2012). Jews United States Economic conditions Congresses. Capitalism United States History Congresses. Capitalism Religious aspects Congresses. Free enterprise Religious aspects Judaism Congresses. Economics Religious aspects Judaism Congresses. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise bisacsh Electronic books. Kobrin, Rebecca. Print version: Chosen capital. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012 9780813553078 (DLC) 2011038426 (OCoLC)755004255 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494302 EBSCOhost EBSC 494302 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51800 51800