Jews and booze: becoming American in the age of prohibition
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"...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York [u.a.]
New York Univ. Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Reviews: | Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition by Marni Davis, New York University Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-0-8147-2028-8), x + 262 pp., hb 32 (2013) (Blumenthal, David R.)
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| Series/Journal: | The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
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| Further subjects: | B
Alkoholindustrie
B Prohibition B Alcoholic beverage industry (United States) History 20th century B Alcohol Law and legislation (United States) B Usa B Alcoholic beverage industry (United States) History 19th century B Jews B Jews Alcohol use (United States) Attitudes B United States Ethnic relations B History |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0814720285 |