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  • General Electric Company advertisement, 1934
    General Electric Company advertisement, 1934
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    Living the ‘Goods Life’

    Appliances. Electronics. Television sets. New Cars. How corporations marketed to Jewish consumers, and how those new creature comforts divided the community.

    byJenna Weissman Joselit
  • R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas, 1942.
    R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas, 1942.
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    Merry Christmas, Donald Trump

    TO: America  FROM: The Jews

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Hitler Youth units parade in the streets of Soltau in September 1937, in front of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.(OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
    Hitler Youth units parade in the streets of Soltau in September 1937, in front of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.(OFF/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Neo-Nazis Embrace Hipster Chic

    The union makes sense: Nazism and consumerism have always been linked

    byRachel Shukert
  • Lisa Clair as Bitzel Fenster and Molly Pope as Mama in The Material World.(Chasi Annexy)
    Lisa Clair as Bitzel Fenster and Molly Pope as Mama in The Material World.(Chasi Annexy)
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    Shopping for Answers

    The Material World, Dan Fishback’s new musical, uses the Jewish left to ask: Are consumers the new workers?

    byRachel Shukert
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