Chosen capital the Jewish encounter with American capitalism /
edited by Rebecca Kobrin.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (ix, 311 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States / The evolution of the Jewish garment industry, 1840-1940 / From the rag trade to riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the building of New York's garment district / Success from scrap and second-hand goods: Jewish businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930 / Despised merchandise: American Jewish liquor entrepreneurs and their prohibitionist critics / Blacks, Jews, and the business of race music, 1945-1955 / Jews, Indian curios, and the westward expansion 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 / Marketing cantors in the early 20th century: the case of Yossele Rosenblatt / How matzah became square: Manischewitz and the development of machine-made matzah in the United States / Rebecca Kobrin -- Ira Katznelson -- Phyllis Dillon and Andrew Godley -- Andrew Dolkart -- Jonathan Z.S. Pollack -- Marni Davis -- Jonathan Karp -- David Koffman -- Daniel Katz -- Daniel Soyer -- Eli Lederhendler -- Jeffrey Shandler -- Jonathan Sarna.