Jacob Goldstein

In 1925 Abe (Abraham) Cahan, the strong and influential editor of the most important Jewish newspaper, Forward, and an outstanding leader of the Jewish Labor movement in the United States, visited Palestine in order to come to terms with the problem of Jewish mass migration from East Europe. During and following his trip Cahan published his impressions about the Jewish National Home. His publicati

Excerpt from Twenty Years in State's Prison, Through a Judicial Blunder; The Case of Alfred SchwitofskyThat a well-to-do sexual pervert, of infamous char acter, and following his loathsome practices for years, had, for years, remained undisturbed by the police though he was notorious for evil-doing; That when, at length, a sordid squabble with a young blackguard who ministered to his v

This memoir is a living legacy to the author's grandchildren and a remembrance of his life and experiences.

Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined m

an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental Food and lifeSweeping, impassioned, and ult