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  1. The other essays are “History and Politics” (Hayek), “The Treatment of Capitalism by Historians” and “The Standard of Life of the Workers in England, 1790–1830” (Ashton), “The treatment of Capitalism by Continental Intellectuals” (de Jouvenel), and “The Factory System of the Early Nineteenth Century” (Hutt).

  2. Lederhendler argued that this economic success was not due to the cultural values which Jews brought with them from Europe but to the social and economic conditions they encountered in America. Jews, he said, were creatures not of habit but of habitat. Their willingness to divest themselves of their culture baggage explained their economic mobility. “The discontinuity between Old World and New World was embraced, not resisted.” (533)

  3. Volume XXX (Summer, 1942). This essay also appears in Hertzberg and Fishman (1964).

Further Reading

  • Hertzberg, A., & Fishman, L. A. (Eds.). 1964. History and Jewish Historians: Essays and Addresses by Salo W. Baron (pp. 43–64). Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America.

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  • Lederhendler, E. 2005. American Jews, American Capitalism, and the Politics of History. In E. Lederhendler & J. Wertheimer (Eds.), Text and Context: Essays in Modern Jewish History and Historiography in Honor of Ismar Schorsch (p. 505). New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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  • Muller, J. Z. 2010. Capitalism and the Jews (pp. 2, 12, 64–70). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • Muller J. Z. 2013. March/April. Capitalism and Inequality: What the Right and Left Get Wrong. Foreign Affairs, 92, 30–31, 48.

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Shapiro, E. Jewish Historians and American Capitalism. Soc 50, 518–521 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-013-9701-x

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