The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City【電子書籍】[ Scott D. Seligman ]

＜p＞2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner＜br /＞ 2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards Gold Medal Winner '＜br /＞ 2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category＜br /＞ 2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in American Jewish Studies＜br /＞ 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist '＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York’s Jewish quarter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted, their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stocks ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nig．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る