“A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860–1960.” Yeshiva University Museum, 15 West 16th St., New York, NY 10011. Temporary exhibition, Dec. 4, 2005–April 2, 2006. 4,500 sq. ft. Sylvia A. Herskowitz, project director; Gabriel Goldstein, curator. Internet: exhibition description and highlights, text, photographs, upcoming events, and catalog ordering and membership information, http://www.yumuseum.org/APerfectFit/index.html. The history of the American garment industry is not an unusual subject for a museum exhibition (some recent examples include the Smithsonian Institution's “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820–Present” and “Piecing it Together: Immigrants in the Garment Industry” at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum). The role of American Jewry in the industry, however, is a topic that has not been widely treated. One would not think it a particularly controversial subject though, given the well-known prevalence of Jewish owners and workers in the manufacturing and sales of American clothing. Indeed, it also falls within the genre of “ethnic niche” labor-industrial history—for example, Germans in the beer industry, Italians in the longshore industry—which details the history, economics, and culture of, and trajectories followed by, specific immigrant ethnic groups in America. The underlying premises of Yeshiva University Museum's “A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860–1960” were that Jews dominated the industry (although the only statistics the exhibition gave were for New York City, where, by the turn of the twentieth century, 75 percent of garment industry workers were Jewish), and that apparel production, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, was particularly well suited to Jewish immigrants as a means of gaining a foothold in the American economy.