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Winner, 2016 Best First Reserve Reward from the Immigration and Ethnic History Culture
Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Reward for Jewish Literature
Winner, 2015 Book Reward from the Southern Jewish Historical Culture
Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Reserve Award from the Association for Jewish Studies
Winner, 2014 National Jewish Reserve Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Reserve Council
The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived practically penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as extremely successful. How do we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of ethnical factors distinctive to them as a group, or due to particular circumstances that they experienced in America? The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the get older of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a specific area of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble origins, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a posture of unusual assurance and prominence, shaping both their societal position and the clothing industry all together. Comparing the history of Jewish contribution within the clothing trade in the United States get back of Jews in the same business in England, The Rag Race demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either part of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in sociable and economic final results for Jews in each setting.
