The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire by Adam D Mendelsohn Discount Yossel Yurek is a thirteen year old 9781949217049 Yossel Yurek is a thirteen year old Jew whose ingenuity in smuggling goods in and out of his community saved the lives of those dear to him as well as his own Written in 1913 and previously unpublished in the United States The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society