Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

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...

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Other Authors: Ansell, Lisa (Editor), Diner, Hasia R. (Editor), Ross, Steven J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. American Jewish business : at the street level / Hasia R. Diner
  • 2. Common fortunes : social and financial gains of Jewish and Christian partnerships in eighteenth-century Transatlantic trade / Allan M. Amanik
  • 3. Jewish immigrant bankers, New York real estate, and American finance, 1870-1914 / Rebecca Kobrin
  • 4. Far Away Moses & Company : an Ottoman Jewish business between Istanbul and the United States / Julia Phillips Cohen
  • 5. The roots of Jewish concentration in the American popular music business, 1890-1945 / Jonathan Karp
  • 6. "Sometimes it is like I am sitting on a volcano" : retailers, diplomats, and the refugee crisis, 1933-1945 / Niki C. Lefebvre
  • 7. Max Moses Heller : patron saint of Greenville's renaissance / Diane Vecchio
  • 8. "A just and righteous man" : Eli Black and the transformation of United Fruit.