Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jews and booze

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

724667195

Responsibility statement

Marni Davis

Series statement

The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Sub title

becoming American in the age of prohibition

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

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