- 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.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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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