The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Seligman, Scott D.
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

$321.44
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

$321.44
Author: Scott D. Seligman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner
2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner
2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist

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.

What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.




Author: Scott D. Seligman
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 11/01/2023
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781640126022

About the Author
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of several books, including A Second Reckoning: Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis (Potomac, 2021) and Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China (Potomac, 2023).
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