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A perfect fit : the garment industry and American Jewry (1860-1960)
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"Investigates the U.S. fashion industry's nineteenth-century origins and the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward"-...
"Investigates the U.S. fashion industry's nineteenth-century origins and the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- edited by Gabriel Goldstein and Elizabeth Greenberg ; foreword by Sylvia A. Herskowitz
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 237 pages, P16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780896727359, 0896727351
- OCLC
- ocn761482167
- "Published for Yeshiva University Museum."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.
- Sewn together: the garment industry and American Jewry / Gabriel M. Goldstein, ... [et al.] -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from London / Andrew Godley -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from Paris / Nancy L. Green -- American Jewish identity and the garment industry / Hasia Diner -- The birth of clothing industry in America, 1815-1860 / Michael Zakim -- German Jews in the early manufacture of ready-made clothing / Phyllis Dillon -- The ready-made menswear industry of Rochester, New York, 1948-1900 / Bernard Smith -- Fitting in: advertising, clothing, and social identity among turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants / Rob Schorman -- Form Division Street to Seventh Avenue: the coming of age of American Fashion / Joanne Olian -- Labor relations and the protocol of peace in progressive era New York / Richard A. Greenwald -- Acclimatizing fashion: Jewish inventiveness on the other (Pacific) coast, 1850-1940 / William Toll -- Kansas City's garment industry / Laurel Wilson -- From Seventh Avenue to Hollywood: fashioning early cinema, 1905-1935 / Michelle Tolini Finamore