Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments vii Note on Orthography and Transliteration ix PA R T I Reframing the Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism Introduction. The Chosen People in the Chosen Land: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism  Rebecca Kobrin  Two Exceptionalisms: Points of Departure for Studies of Capitalism and Jews in the United States  Ira Katznelson PA R T I I Jewish Niches in the American Economy  The Evolution of the Jewish Garment Industry, –  Phyllis Dillon and Andrew Godley  From the Rag Trade to Riches: Abraham E. Lefcourt and the Development of New York’s Garment District  Andrew S. Dolkart  Success from Scrap and Secondhand Goods: Jewish Businessmen in the Midwest, –  Jonathan Z. S. Pollack vi contents  Despised Merchandise: American Jewish Liquor Entrepreneurs and Their Critics  Marni Davis  Blacks, Jews, and the Business of Race Music, –  Jonathan Karp  Jews, American Indian Curios, and the Westward Expansion of Capitalism  David S. Koffman PA R T I I I Jews and the Politics of American Capitalism  The Multicultural Front: A Yiddish Socialist Response to Sweatshop Capitalism  Daniel Katz  Making Peace with Capitalism? Jewish Socialism Enters the Mainstream, –  Daniel Soyer  A Jewish “Third Way” to American Capitalism: Isaac Rivkind and the Conservative-Communitarian Ideal  Eli Lederhendler PA R T I V Selling Judaism: Capitalism and Reshaping of Jewish Religious Culture  Sanctification of the Brand Name: The Marketing of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt  Jeffrey Shandler  How Matzah Became Square: Manischewitz and the Development of Machine-Made Matzah in the United States  Jonathan D. Sarna Contributors  Index  ...