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Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition
- Title
- Jews and booze : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Marni.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
- Uniform Title
- Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *PXY 12-1282
- ISBN
- 9780814720288 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0814720285 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011028199
- OCLC
- 724667195
- Author
- Davis, Marni.
- Title
- Jews and booze : 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 HistoryGoldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *PXY 12-1282