Jews and booze becoming American in the age of prohibition /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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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.