Jews and Booze : : Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition / / Marni Davis.
Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book CouncilTraces American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibitionFrom kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationsh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Alcohol and Acculturation
- 1 Setting up Shop: Jews Becoming Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Alcohol Trade
- 2 “Do as We Israelites Do” American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement
- Part II Alcohol and Anti-Semitism
- 3 Kosher Wine and Jewish Saloons: New Jewish Immigrants Enter the American Alcohol Trade
- 4 An “Unscrupulous Jewish Type of Mind” Jewish Alcohol Entrepreneurs and Their Critics
- Part III Jews and the Prohibition Era
- 5 Rabbis and Other Bootleggers: Jews as Prohibition-Era Alcohol Entrepreneurs
- 6 “The Law of the Land Is the Law” Jews Respond to the Volstead Act
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author