Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From

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Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class

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.

Country	USA
Author	Eli Lederhendler
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Cambridge University Press
EAN	9780521730235
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
IsAdultProduct
ISBN	0521730236
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	248
PublicationDate	2009-03-02
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ReleaseDate	2009-05-28
Studio	Cambridge University Press

Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class