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SELIGMAN In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Man- hattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York’s Jewish quarter. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted, their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stocks ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had them shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston . Tea Party. The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated female immigrants who discovered Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, He is the author of several books, including the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices the award-winning The Third Degree: The Triple high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its Murder That Shook Washington and Changed nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience American Criminal Justice (Potomac Books, but steely determination, this group of women organized 2018) and The First Chinese American: The themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. His articles foray into the political arena in their adopted country, have appeared in the Washington Post and the successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests Seattle Times, among other publications. and set a pattern for future generations to follow. DECEMBER “Master storyteller Scott D. Seligman weaves together the dispa- 320 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 11 illustrations, rate narratives of New York’s 1902 kosher meat boycott, America’s 1 map, 1 table, 1 chronology, 1 glossary, index first and only chief rabbi, and the notorious Meat Trust. Deeply $32.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-358-8 researched and engagingly written, The Great Kosher Meat War of $43.95 Canadian / £26.99 UK 1902 takes its delighted readers back in time to the teeming streets of the Lower East Side and the rough-and-tumble world of its immi- grant Jews.”—Pamela S. 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