A Perfect Fit
The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5704626 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Breitzer, Susan Roth Breitzer (Campbell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 543-543 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat203 |
| OpenAlex | W2316048108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
At first glance, A Perfect Fit appears to be something of an oxymoron—an academic coffee-table book. This multiessay volume, coedited by Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, and published as part of the Costume Society of America series of Texas Tech University Press and as a Yeshiva University Museum publication, was created as a companion volume to the long-closed exhibit of the same name that had been on display at the Yeshiva University Museum from 2005 to 2006. This oversized volume, full of eye-catching color and black-and-white illustrations drawn from the museum exhibit and elsewhere does look like an attractive coffee-table book or museum exhibit catalog. But readers who take a closer look at the essays, the diverse authors of which range from historians to museum curators, will quickly discern that this volume is much more than its illustrations and references to the exhibit. The thirteen essays cover more than a century of Jewish participation in the American garment industry and include an unprecedented variety of topics and focuses, ranging from pre–Civil War clothing manufacturing to the impact of the 1910 Protocols of Peace on labor relations to the role of Hollywood and the movies in shaping American fashion. The essays also cover a diverse geographic span that takes the topics far beyond the familiar New York City Jewish garment industries to bring readers histories of Jews and clothing manufacturing in places ranging from Rochester to Kansas City to the Pacific Coast. This geographic variety also includes transnational comparative perspectives, provided by essays on the Jewish garment industries in London and Paris, by Andrew Godley and Nancy L. Green, respectively. Although these essays were commissioned to tie in with the exhibit, each stands on its own as a piece of scholarship and speaks to readers who did not see the museum exhibit
Archaeology · Art history · Casual · Clothing · Hollywood · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · White (mutation · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |