Road warriors: the migration and the peddlers -- Road runners: Jewish peddlers in their new worlds -- Along the road: Jewish peddlers and their new-world customers -- Road rage: Jewish peddlers and the perils of the road -- The end of the road: life after peddling -- Legacies of the road: a...

The chosen people in the chosen land: some thoughts on the Jewish encounter with American capitalism / Rebecca Kobrin -- Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States / Ira Katznelson -- The evolution of the Jewish garment industry, 1840-1940 /...

Endings and Beginnings -- From Peddling to Prominence-The Early Years -- The William H. Block Company -- H. P. Wasson and Company -- The College Boards -- L. Strauss and Company: "He'll Open His Strauss Gift First" -- Davidson's and Paul Harris: Haute (and Not So Haute) Couture Pioneers -- The...

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to immense wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most defining legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practice of philanthropy. While few may recall...