Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

9/1/2003 - 8/31/2006

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$300,000.00 (approved)
$300,000.00 (awarded)


A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry

FAIN: GM-50120-03

Yeshiva University Museum (New York, NY 10033-3324)
Sylvia A. Herskowitz (Project Director: February 2003 to April 2007)

Implementation of an exhibition with a catalog, a traveling exhibition, a website, and public programs about how Jewish immigrants influenced the development of America's clothing industry and how this involvement affected both Jewish American and mainstream culture.





Associated Products

A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry adn American Jewry 1860-1960 (Catalog)
Title: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry adn American Jewry 1860-1960
Author: Gabriel Goldstein
Author: Elizabeth Greenberg
Abstract: "Investigates the U.S. fashion industry's nineteenth-century origins and the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward"--Provided by publisher.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/perfect-fit-the-garment-industry-and-american-jewry-1860-1960/oclc/761482167&referer=brief_results
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press