![]() | The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire Subjects: Clothing trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Clothing trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- United States -- Economic conditions -- History; Jews -- England -- Economic conditions -- History; Success in business -- Unit; Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Adam D. Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire and co-editor of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History . |
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