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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1. VerfasserIn: Davis, Marni (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] New York Univ. Press 2012
In:Jahr: 2012
Rezensionen: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.)
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
weitere Schlagwörter: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 Alcohol use (United States) Attitudes
B Geschichte
B United States Ethnic relations
B Juden
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0814720285