{"product_id":"jewish-immigrants-and-american-capitalism-1880-1920-from-caste-to-class-9780521513609","title":"Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eli Lederhendler\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Jewish - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEli 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780934516887,"sku":"9780521513609","price":10432.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521513609.webp?v=1778049350","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/jewish-immigrants-and-american-capitalism-1880-1920-from-caste-to-class-9780521513609","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}