{"product_id":"jewish-immigrants-and-american-capitalism-eli-lederhendler-9780521730235","title":"Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class","description":"Eli Lederhendler's Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United States around the turn of the 20th century - a group that accounted for 10 to 15 percent of immigrants to the United States between 1899 and 1920 - challenging and revising common assumptions concerning the ease of their initial adaptation and image as a \"model\" immigrant minority. Lederhendler demonstrates that the characteristics for which Jewish immigrants are commonly known - their industriousness, \"middle-class\" domestic habits, and political sympathy for the working class - were, in fact, developed in response to their new situation in the United States. This experience realigned Jewish social values and restored to these immigrants a sense of status, honor, and a novel kind of social belonging, and with it the \"social capital\" needed to establish a community quite different from the ones they came from.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eli Lederhendler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521730236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521730235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2009 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2010","brand":"Eli Lederhendler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043290312959,"sku":"9780521730235","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_434c9312-123a-4c44-8aad-ccfaaddcdec5.jpg?v=1684966312","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-immigrants-and-american-capitalism-eli-lederhendler-9780521730235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}