The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Mendelsohn, Adam D.

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781479847181)

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The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Mendelsohn, Adam D.

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

$89.00
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Mendelsohn, Adam D.

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society

Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies

Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council

The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America?

The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence, shaping both their societal status and the clothing industry as a whole.

Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, The Rag Race demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.

Author: Adam D. Mendelsohn
ISBN-10: 1479847186
ISBN-13: 9781479847181
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner

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Choice 06/01/2015
By Adam D. Mendelsohn
By Adam D. Mendelsohn
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Adam D. Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire and co-editor of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History.

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