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Jews and Booze : Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition.
At the turn of the century, American Jews and prohibitionists viewed one another with growing suspicion. Jews believed that all Americans had the right to sell and consume alcohol, while prohibitionists insisted that alcohol commerce and consumption posed a threat to the nation's morality and s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: ALCOHOL AND ACCULTURATION; 1 Setting up Shop: Jews Becoming Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Alcohol Trade; 2 "Do as We Israelites Do": American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement; PART II: ALCOHOL AND ANTI-SEMITISM; 3 Kosher Wine and Jewish Saloons: New Jewish Immigrants Enter the American Alcohol Trade; 4 An "Unscrupulous Jewish Type of Mind": Jewish Alcohol Entrepreneurs and Their Critics; PART III: JEWS AND THE PROHIBITION ERA.
- 5 Rabbis and Other Bootleggers: Jews as Prohibition-Era Alcohol Entrepreneurs6 "The Law of the Land Is the Law": Jews Respond to the Volstead Act; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.