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Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Marni
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Series:Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
Subjects:
Jews > Alcohol use > United States > Attitudes.
Alcoholic beverage industry > United States > History > 19th century.
Alcoholic beverage industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Alcohol > Law and legislation > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.