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Author Harris, Leon A.

Title Merchant princes : an intimate history of Jewish families who built great department stores / Leon Harris.

Publication Info. New York : Harper & Row, [1979]
©1979

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  381    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  920 H242    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 411 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 382-395.
Note Includes index.
Form Also issued online.
Contents The Filenes of Boston -- The Strauses of New York-five generations -- The Gimbels, Albert M. Greenfield, and other brotherly lovers -- The Kaufmanns of Pittsburgh -- The Goldsmiths of Memphis -- The Riches of Atlanta -- Dallas and the Marci -- The wild Southwest -- The Jewish argonauts of San Francisco -- The Meiers and Franks of Oregon -- Sears, Roebuck and the Rosenwalds -- Legions of Lazari, or how Fred Lazarus, jr., ate up everybody else.
Summary "Merchant princes reveals the exciting stories of many of America's great Jewish storekeeping families..."--Jacket.
Subject Jews -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish merchants -- United States -- Biography.
Department stores -- United States -- History.
United States -- Biography.
Other Form: Online version: Harris, Leon A. Merchant princes. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1979 (OCoLC)643760335
ISBN 0060117974: $12.95
9780060117979
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