The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Adam D Mendelsohn bilingual Ground Zero

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Two complete novels are presented

Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Adam D Mendelsohn bilingual Ground ZeroWinner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain