Download or read book Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism 1880 1920 written by Eli Lederhendler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down and out in Eastern Europe -- Being an immigrant: ideal, ordeal, and opportunities -- Becoming an (ethnic) American: from class to ideology.
Download or read book American Jewish History written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Time for Building written by Gerald Sorin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South and the West.
Download or read book Chosen Capital written by Rebecca Kobrin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At which moments and in which ways did Jews play a central role in the development of American capitalism? Many popular writers address the intersection of Jews and capitalism, but few scholars, perhaps fearing this question’s anti-Semitic overtones, have pondered it openly. Chosen Capital represents the first historical collection devoted to this question in its analysis of the ways in which Jews in North America shaped and were shaped by America’s particular system of capitalism. Jews fundamentally molded aspects of the economy during the century when American capital was being redefined by industrialization, war, migration, and the emergence of the United States as a superpower. Surveying such diverse topics as Jews’ participation in the real estate industry, the liquor industry, and the scrap metal industry, as well as Jewish political groups and unions bent on reforming American capital, such as the American Labor Party and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, contributors to this volume provide a new prism through which to view the Jewish encounter with America. The volume also lays bare how American capitalism reshaped Judaism itself by encouraging the mass manufacturing and distribution of foods like matzah and the transformation of synagogue cantors into recording stars. These essays force us to rethink not only the role Jews played in American economic development but also how capitalism has shaped Jewish life and Judaism over the course of the twentieth century. Contributors: Marni Davis, Georgia State University Phyllis Dillon, independent documentary producer, textile conservator, museum curator Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University Andrew Godley, Henley Business School, University of Reading Jonathan Karp, executive director, American Jewish Historical Society Daniel Katz, Empire State College, State University of New York Ira Katznelson, Columbia University David S. Koffman, New York University Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jonathan Z. S. Pollack, University of Wisconsin—Madison Jonathan D. Sarma, Brandeis University Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Daniel Soyer, Fordham University
Download or read book At the Edge of a Dream written by Lawrence J Epstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
Download or read book Women in the Great Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to America 1880 1920 written by Céline Ouziel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emerging Metropolis written by Annie Polland and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes New York’s transformation into a Jewish city Emerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time. It explores the Central European and East European Jews’ encounter with New York City, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, security, and material prosperity—into the very fabric and physical landscape of the city.
Download or read book Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 written by Samuel Joseph and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Samuel Joseph's meticulously researched book, 'Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910', the author delves into the wave of Jewish immigrants who came to America during this pivotal time period. Joseph's historical analysis is both detailed and insightful, providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities that faced these immigrants as they sought to build new lives in a new land. The book is written in a clear and engaging style, making it a valuable resource for scholars and general readers interested in the history of American immigration and the Jewish experience in the United States. The author's attention to detail and nuanced understanding of the social and political context of the time period enriches the reader's understanding of this important chapter in American history.
Download or read book Central European Jews in America 1840 1880 written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Promise of a New Life written by Susan H. Myers and published by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Immigration to the United States written by Samuel Joseph and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on dry-fly fishing, with both theoretical and practical information for the dry-fly fishing enthusiast. Although old, the information contained within these pages is timeless, making this both a handy resource and a great addition to collections of fishing literature. The chapters of this volume include: 'The Dry-Fly Fisherman's Gear', 'Floating Flies and Sunk Flies', 'How to Cast', 'Where to Cast', 'When to Cast', 'Studies of Fish Feeding', 'Circumstances Affecting the Angler's Sport', 'Selection of Fly', 'Evening Fishing', 'Autopsy', 'Trout or Grayling', 'The Management of a Fishery', et cetera. This text is being republished now complete with a specially commissioned introduction on the history of fishing.
Download or read book The Prophetic Minority written by Gerald Sorin and published by . This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Door written by Thomas Kessner and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these studies examine the general notion that American society has been historically an open system which offered great opportunity for advancement to its poor and newcomers.
Download or read book American Jewish History written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acculturation of the Eastern European Jewish Immigrant in America 1880 1920 written by Samuel Neal Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnicity and Beyond written by Eli Lederhendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish "ethnicity." In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity, Jews are often considered to belong socially to the "majority," whereas "otherness" is reserved for "minorities." But these group labels and their meanings have changed over time. This volume analyzes how "ethnic," "ethnicity," and "identity" have been applied to Jews, past and present, individually and collectively. Most of the symposium papers on the ethnicity of Jewish people and the social groups they form draw heavily on the case of American Jews, while others offer wider geographical perspectives. Contributors address ex-Soviet Jews in Philadelphia, comparing them to a similar population in Tel Aviv; Communism and ethnicity; intermarriage and group blending; American Jewish dialogue; and German Jewish migration in the interwar decades. Leading academics, employing a variety of social scientific methods and historical paradigms, propose to enhance the clarity of definitions used to relate "ethnic identity" to the Jews. They point to ethnic experience in a variety of different social manifestations: language use in social context, marital behavior across generations, spatial and occupational differentiation in relation to other members of society, and new immigrant communities as sub-ethnic units within larger Jewish populations. They also ponder the relevance of individual experience and preference as compared to the weight of larger socializing factors. Taken as a whole, this work offers revisionist views on the utility of terms like "Jewish ethnicity" that were given wider scope by scholars in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.
Download or read book Out of the Shadow written by Rose Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cohen was Russian-born American author whose 1918 autobiography Out of the Shadow provides a classic account of the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City at the end of the 19th century.
