Jews and booze
Subtitle: becoming American in the age of prohibition
By: Marni Davis
Series: The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780814720288; 9780814783849; 9780814744093
Subjects: Jews; Alcohol; Law and legislation; Alcoholic beverage industry; Attitudes; Ethnic relations; Alcohol use; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting up shop: Jews becoming Americans in the nineteenth-century alcohol trade; title: Do as we Israelites do: American Jews and the gilded-age temperance movement; title: Kosher wine and Jewish saloons: new Jewish immigrants enter the American alcohol trade; title: An "unscrupulous Jewish type of mind": Jewish alcohol entrepreneurs and their critics; title: Rabbis and other bootleggers: Jews as prohibition-era alcohol entrepreneurs; title: The law of the land is the law: Jews respond to the Volstead Act.