Adam D. MendelsohnAdam D. Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empir and co-editor of Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History. Read More Read Less