Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition /
Davis, Marni.
New York ; London : New York University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) 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.
Jews
Alcoholic beverage industry
Alcoholic beverage industry
Alcohol