Bibliograph

Jews and booze, becoming American in the age of prohibition, Marni Davis

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Jews and booze, becoming American in the age of prohibition, Marni Davis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jews and booze

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marni Davis

Series statement

The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Sub title

becoming American in the age of prohibition

Summary

Examines the relationship between alcohol and the Jewish community throughout the nineteenth century and the period of Prohibition, describing the role of Jews in the liquor industry and the relationship between the anti-alcohol movement and anti-Semitism

Table Of Contents

Setting up shop : Jews becoming Americans in the nineteenth-century alcohol trade -- Do as we Israelites do : American Jews and the gilded-age temperance movement -- Kosher wine and Jewish saloons : new Jewish immigrants enter the American alcohol trade -- An "unscrupulous Jewish type of mind" : Jewish alcohol entrepreneurs and their critics -- Rabbis and other bootleggers : Jews as prohibition-era alcohol entrepreneurs -- The law of the land is the law : Jews respond to the Volstead Act

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