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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.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920
• Subtitle: From Caste to Class
• Author: Eli Lederhendler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780521513609
• ISBN: 052151360X
• ID: 02033080
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 45 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 158 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. March 2009

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