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Doing business in America : a Jewish history / Steven J. Ross, Hasia R. Diner, Lisa Ansell, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jewish role in American life ; Volume 16.
- Jewish role in American life ; Volume 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--United States--History.
- Jews.
- Jews--United States--Social conditions.
- Jewish businesspeople--United States--History.
- Jewish businesspeople.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 232 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business.Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editorial Introduction
- Chapter 1: American Jewish Business: At the Street Level
- Chapter 2: Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade
- Chapter 3: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, New York Real Estate, and American Finance, 1870-1914
- Chapter 4: Far Away Moses &
- Company: An Ottoman Jewish Business between Istanbul and the United States
- Chapter 5: The Roots of Jewish Concentration in the American Popular Music Business, 1890-1945
- Chapter 6: "Sometimes It Is Like I Am Sitting on a Volcano": Retailers, Diplomats, and the Refugee Crisis, 1933-1945
- Chapter 7: Max Moses Heller: Patron Saint of Greenville's Renaissance
- Chapter 8: "A Just and Righteous Man": Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit
- About the Contributors
- The USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612495590
- 1612495591
- OCLC:
- 1080081189
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