Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity

Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity
ISBN-10
0231068530
ISBN-13
9780231068536
Category
History
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Columbia History of Urban Life
Author
Andrew R. Heinze

Description

Between 1880 and 1914, Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side defined themselves as American not only by their occupations or education but by their spending practices as well. Jewish immigrants assimilated into American culture through the purchase of fashions, material goods, and resort vacations, combined with Jewish social and religious traditions to create a unique and innovative American identity.

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