Name: Jews in America Trilogy
Author: Birmingham Stephen
ISBN: 9781504038959

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Jews in America Trilogy

Birmingham Stephen

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PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
“Our Crowd”
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Preface
PART I A PARTICULAR PRINCIPALITY
1 “PEOPLE WE VISIT”
PART II OUT OF THE WILDERNESS 1837–1865
2 “MOUNT SELIGMAN”
3 “MOUNT BEAUTIFUL”
4 ON THE ROAD
5 MRS. RANKIN’S GALOSHES
6 ON TO THE CITY
7 MATTERS OF STATUS
8 MATTERS OF STYLE
9 TO THE GOLD FIELDS
10 “THIS UNHOLY REBELLION”
PART III INTO THE MAINSTREAM 1866–1899
11 PEDDLERS IN TOP HATS
12 THE “OUR DEAR BABETTE” SYNDROME
13 “GETTING OUR FEET WET”
14 “THE D—D RAILROADS!”
15 “MY BANK’
16 THE ASSIMILATIONISTS
17 “THE HAUGHTY AND PURSE-PROUD ROTHSCHILDS”
18 THE SELIGMAN-HILTON AFFAIR
PART IV THE AGE OF SCHIFF
19 “A COMPLEX ORIENTAL NATURE”
20 “YOUR LOVING KUHN, LOEB & COMPANY”
21 THE EMERGING GIANTS
22 MR. SCHIFF VS. MR. LOEB
23 PORTRAIT OF A FATHER
24 THE MITTELWEG WARBURGS
25 MARRIAGE, SCHIFF STYLE
26 “THE BATTLE OF THE GIANTS”
27 “DER REICHE LEWISOHN”
28 THE POOR MAN’S METAL
29 FURTHER ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND
30 TWILIGHT OF A BANKER
31 THE LADIES
32 SONS, DAUGHTERS, REBELS
33 ELBERON, AND POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH
34 THE GUGGENHEIM-LEWISOHN BATTLE
35 MONSIEUR JOURNET’S NIGHTGOWN
36 THE GREAT BATTLE OF 1109 FIFTH AVENUE
37 “WITTY AND INTERESTING PERSONALITIES”
38 THE EQUITABLE LIFE AFFAIR
39 “I ENCLOSE MY CHECK FOR $2,000,000 …”
40 THE “SINISTER TRANSMUTATION”
41 CALAMITIES AND SOLUTIONS
42 THE RISE OF A HOUSE OF ISSUE
43 “PFLICHT UND ARBEIT”
PART V NEW YORK 21, N.Y.
44 THE END OF A LINE
45 THE FALL, AND AFTER
46 THE END OF A DREAM
47 WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
48 “FAMILIENGEFÜHL” … AND NO BARE FEET AT DINNER
Index
The Grandees
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Sephardim:
AUTHOR’S NOTE
1 THE BOOK
2 WHO ARE THEY?
3 “NOT JEWELS, BUT JEWS …”
4 THE TWENTY-THREE
5 “THESE GODLESS RASCALS”
6 LITTLE VICTORIES
7 “GOMEZ, THE ONIONS BEGIN TO SMELL!”
8 “MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE WINDWARD COAST OF AFRICA”
9 ALLARUMS AND RAVAGES
10 MISALLIANCES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS
11 FIRST LADIES
12 LEGENDS AND LEGACIES
13 THE FIREBRAND
14 THE NEW JEWS VERSUS THE OLD
15 THE U.S. NAVY SURRENDERS AT LAST!
16 THE JEWISH EPISCOPALIANS
17 “NATHANS DON’T CHEAT”—BUT DO THEY KILL?
18 “CARDOZOS DON’T CRY”
19 THE EMBATTLED SISTERS
20 “FOUL DEEDS”
21 “AN ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT SORT”
22 SMALL GESTURES … AND A HUSH AT CHATHAM SQUARE
Image Gallery
SOURCES
INDEX
“The Rest of Us”
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Preface
Part One BEGINNINGS: 1880–1919
1 UPTOWN FIREBRAND
2 WHY THEY CAME
3 A JEWISH CINDERELLA
4 AN OCCUPATION FOR GENTLEMEN
5 HEROES AND HEROINES
Part Two GETTING OUT: 1920–1950
6 THE JEWISH LAKE AND OTHER CREATIONS
7 FITTING IN
8 MINSTRELS AND MINSTRELSY
9 HIGH ROLLERS
10 LITTLE CAESARS
11 DEALS
12 WAR
13 AT LAST, A HOMELAND
14 TOUCHES OF CLASS
15 ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Part Three HERE WE ARE: 1951–
16 CROWN PRINCES
17 WITCH-HUNTING
18 “PEOPLE WHO ARE SOLID”
19 FROM POLAND TO POLO
Image Gallery
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
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