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Jews and booze becoming American in the age of prohibition

Title
Jews and booze [electronic resource] : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.
Author
Davis, Marni.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 262 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Uniform Title
Jews and booze (Online)
Alternative Title
Jews and booze (Online)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2011028199
OCLC
ssj0000637354
Author
Davis, Marni.
Title
Jews and booze [electronic resource] : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Series
The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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