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THE POLITICAL ORIGINS OF THE UNITED HEBREW TRADES, 1888
The 1880s witnessed mass Jewish immigration into the United States. Jews began to organize for their own interests in the labor market, & Jewish socialists founded the Socialist Labor Party. For them, unions & striking activities were intimately linked. German-American workers aided the socialists, as did a periodical promoting Jewish unification. With the adoption of the United Hebrew Trades (UHT) platform, & the incorporation of Marxist principles, the Central Labor Union sought political activity, including a Union Square demonstration for Irish independence. The Central Labor Union posed a campaign on behalf of three NY women who were dismissed for inappropriate reasons from their jobs. Wealthy Jews & the movement of S. Gompers inhibited the growth of Jewish organized labor. Since the socialists opposed religious principles as the basis for their organization, Gompers was wrong in his assertion that the UHT was an organization of 'unions of their religion'. The UHT was effective in those trades where Jews were numerically prominent. Even with uneven growth & the eventual emergence of conflict from within, the UHT was an important movement. L. Kamel.
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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States—a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history—from the communities that sent formal letters of greeting to George Washington; to the three thousand Jewish men who fought for the Confederacy and the ten thousand who fought in the Union army; to the Jewish activists who devoted themselves to the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Diner portrays this history as a constant process of negotiation, undertaken by ordinary Jews who wanted at one and the same time to be Jews and full Americans. Accordingly, Diner draws on both American and Jewish sources to explain the chronology of American Jewish history, the structure of its communal institutions, and the inner dynamism that propelled it. Her work documents the major developments of American Judaism—he economic, social, cultural, and political activities of the Jews who immigrated to and settled in America, as well as their descendants—and shows how these grew out of both a Jewish and an American context. She also demonstrates how the equally compelling urges to maintain Jewishness and to assimilate gave American Jewry the particular character that it retains to this day in all its subtlety and complexity.
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Writing the Feminist Past
In a provocative 1992 essay published in Women's History Review, the historian Antoinette Burton, a scholar whose work focuses on modern Britain and its empire, analyzed what she called the production of historical feminisms. What we call history, wrote Burton, is \"not simply what happened in the past but, more pointedly, the kinds of knowledge about the past that we are made aware of. How, asked Burton, do we end up with the stories about historical feminism upon which we rely? Her answer was that what we know about the feminist past is itself a product of \"discrete historical moments\" in which certain kinds of histories fulfilled the \"needs\" of feminist movements and feminist critics. In 1992, when Burton published this essay, Jews in the United States had long since taken up residence on the \"white\" side of the color line and the question of how, why, and even whether Jewish \"difference\" mattered in what Burton called the construction of the \"feminist past\" did not figure in her discussion.
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Chosen Capital
At which moments and in which ways did Jews play a central role in the development of American capitalism? Many popular writers address the intersection of Jews and capitalism, but few scholars, perhaps fearing this question's anti-Semitic overtones, have pondered it openly.Chosen Capitalrepresents the first historical collection devoted to this question in its analysis of the ways in which Jews in North America shaped andwere shapedby America's particular system of capitalism. Jews fundamentally molded aspects of the economy during the century when American capital was being redefined by industrialization, war, migration, and the emergence of the United States as a superpower.Surveying such diverse topics as Jews' participation in the real estate industry, the liquor industry, and the scrap metal industry, as well as Jewish political groups and unions bent on reforming American capital, such as the American Labor Party and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, contributors to this volume provide a new prism through which to view the Jewish encounter with America. The volume also lays bare how American capitalism reshaped Judaism itself by encouraging the mass manufacturing and distribution of foods like matzah and the transformation of synagogue cantors into recording stars. These essays force us to rethink not only the role Jews played in American economic development but also how capitalism has shaped Jewish life and Judaism over the course of the twentieth century.
Contributors:
Marni Davis, Georgia State University
Phyllis Dillon, independent documentary producer, textile conservator, museum curator
Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University
Andrew Godley, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Jonathan Karp, executive director, American Jewish Historical Society
Daniel Katz, Empire State College, State University of New York
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
David S. Koffman, New York University
Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Jonathan Z. S. Pollack, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan D. Sarma, Brandeis University
Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Daniel Soyer, Fordham University
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Creating the Kosher Brand
In this frame, if kosher is indeed a brand, there should be a way to measure the value of the kosher designation both to the products that the carry the appropriate information, and the institutions that place the kosher designations on foods that meet their standards. [...]my claim is that kosher as a brand encompasses the discrete trademarks of the varied certification organizations; collectively, these symbols communicate to consumers which products meet kosher standards. In the United States, federal trademark registration commenced in 1879; Coca Cola and Philadelphia Cream Cheese were among the first companies to avail themselves of its protections.4 Brands and trademarks are intimately related. Because trademarks can be renewed in perpetuity, they are an attractive legal vehicle for firms seeking to develop brands. [...]brands must have an economic element—visibility and value in a market—as well as the legal protections against copying or unauthorized use that allow the trademark holder to profit from it.5 The marketplace power of brands gives them considerable economic value. [...]the power of the brand over the other trademark holders that contribute to the final product is hidden from consumers but critical for a brand's durability.
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Avant-garde Donna: Donna R. Gabaccia and the Field of Migration Studies
The Donna shelf is not verily just Donna Gabaccia's. It is, in itself, testimony to the diversity within our field, to the varied lives of the migrants we study, and to the shifting historiographic visions that have come to define the field over the last thirty years. Here, Green discusses how Gabaccia's work has been ahead of the curve in so many domains.
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