Jews and booze [electronic resource] : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.
Material type: TextSeries: Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish historyPublication details: New York : New York University Press, 2012.Description: x, 262 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 363.4/1089924073 23
- HV5185 .D38 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.