Jews and booze becoming American in the age of prohibition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Marni
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Series:Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.