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Author Davis, Marni.

Title Jews and booze [electronic resource] : becoming American in the age of prohibition / Marni Davis.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 262 p. : ill.
Series The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814720288
9780814744093 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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