The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and … intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in … which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why …

-- Exceptionalisms: points of departure for studies of capitalism and Jews in the United States / Ira Katznelson -- The evolution of the … their prohibitionist critics / Marni Davis -- Blacks, Jews, and the business of race music, 1945-1955 / Jonathan Karp … -- Jews, Indian curios, and the westward expansion of American capitalism / David Koffman -- The multicultural front: a …