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Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875

Business of Jews in Louisiana, 1840-1875

Ashkenazi, Elliot

Paperback

Series: Judaic Studies

EconomicsGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0817312757
ISBN13: 9780817312756
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Aug 7 2003
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Goes beyond institutional history to concentrate on commercial and social matters

The author's findings imply that Jewish immigrants to the South in the first half of the 19th century came from particular locales with similar social, economic, and religious backgrounds, and they chose to live in the South because of those traditions. The experience of Jews with commercial capitalism, rather than landowning, in agricultural societies, gave the Jews of Louisiana a comparable niche in America, and they participated in the commercial aspects of a regional economy based on agricultural production. Commercial and family connections with other Jewish groups facilitated their development into a settled community. In growth and decline, Jewish communities in Louisiana and elsewhere became permanent features of the landscape and influenced, and were influenced, by the areas in which they lived.

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