Jews and booze becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.

Author/creator Davis, Marni
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionx, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from UPCC Books History 2012 Subject Collection
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Subjects
Jews--Alcohol use. --United States. --Attitudes.
Alcoholic beverage industry--United States. --History. --19th century.
Alcoholic beverage industry--United States. --History. --20th century.
Alcohol--Law and legislation. --United States.
United States--Ethnic relations.

SeriesThe Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011028199
ISBN9780814720288 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814783849 (ebook)
ISBN9780814744093 (ebook)