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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.