The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
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