Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 online resource (x, 262 p.) : ill.

Series statement

1. The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Uniform title

1. Jews and booze (Online)

Alternative title

1. Jews and booze (Online)

Subject

1. United States > Ethnic relations
2. Alcohol > Law and legislation > United States
3. Alcoholic beverage industry > United States > History > 20th century
4. Alcoholic beverage industry > United States > History > 19th century
5. Jews > Alcohol use > United States > Attitudes

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Davis, Marni.

Title

1. Jews and booze [electronic resource] : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.

Imprint

1. New York : New York University Press, c2012.

Series

1. The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2011028199