Doing Business in America

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and the director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. The author of numerous books, her most recent works have included Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and The Peddlers Who Led the Way and Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, both published by Yale University Press in 2015 and 2016, respectively. She is a specialist in American immigration and ethnic history as well as in American Jewish history.

FOREWORD
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1, American Jewish Business: At the Street Level, by Hasia R. Diner
CHAPTER 2, Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade, by Allan M. Amanik
CHAPTER 3, Jewish Immigrant Bankers, New York Real Estate, and American Finance, 1870–1914, by Rebecca Kobrin
CHAPTER 4, Far Away Moses & Company: An Ottoman Jewish Business between Istanbul and the United States, by Julia Phillips Cohen
CHAPTER 5, The Roots of Jewish Concentration in the American Popular Music Business, 1890–1945, by Jonathan Karp
CHAPTER 6, "Sometimes It Is Like I Am Sitting on a Volcano": Retailers, Diplomats, and the Refugee Crisis, 1933–1945, by Niki C. Lefebvre
CHAPTER 7, Max Moses Heller: Patron Saint of Greenville's Renaissance, by Diane Vecchio
CHAPTER 8, "A Just and Righteous Man": Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit, by Matt Garcia
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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