Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Orthography and Transliteration ix
5. Part I. Reframing the Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism
6. Introduction. The Chosen People in the Chosen Land: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism 1
7. 1. Two Exceptionalisms: Points of Departure for Studies of Capitalism and Jews in the United States 12
8. Part II. Jewish Niches in the American Economy
9. 2. The Evolution of the Jewish Garment Industry, 1840-1940 35
10. 3. From the Rag Trade to Riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the Development of New York’s Garment District 62
11. 4. Success from Scrap and Secondhand Goods: Jewish Businessmen in the Midwest, 1890-1930 93
12. 5. Despised Merchandise: American Jewish Liquor Entrepreneurs and Their Critics 113
13. 6. Blacks, Jews, and the Business of Race Music, 1945-1955 141
14. 7. Jews, American Indian Curios, and the Westward Expansion of Capitalism 168
15. Part III. Jews and the Politics of American Capitalism
16. 8. The Multicultural Front: A Yiddish Socialist Response to Sweatshop Capitalism 189
17. 9. Making Peace with Capitalism? Jewish Socialism Enters the Mainstream, 1933-1944 215
18. 10. A Jewish “Third Way” to American Capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the Conservative-Communitarian Ideal 234
19. Part IV. Selling Judaism: Capitalism and Reshaping of Jewish Religious Culture
20. 11. Sanctification of the Brand Name: The Marketing of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt 255
21. 12. How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States 272
22. Contributors 289
23. Index 293