04036nam 2200721 a 450 991045724280332120200520144314.00-8147-8384-80-8147-4409-510.18574/9780814744093(CKB)2550000000073466(EBL)865592(OCoLC)772593020(SSID)ssj0000637354(PQKBManifestationID)11401862(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000637354(PQKBWorkID)10679446(PQKB)11638437(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323766(MiAaPQ)EBC865592(OCoLC)830023221(MdBmJHUP)muse19833(DE-B1597)547633(DE-B1597)9780814744093(Au-PeEL)EBL865592(CaPaEBR)ebr10519777(EXLCZ)99255000000007346620110707d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJews and booze[electronic resource] becoming American in the age of prohibition /Marni DavisNew York New York University Press20121 online resource (273 p.)The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4798-8244-5 0-8147-2028-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book CouncilFrom kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American Jews were forced to choose between abandoning their historical connection to alcohol and remaining outside the American mainstream.In Jews and Booze, Marni Davis examines American Jews’ long and complicated relationship to alcohol during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years of the national prohibition movement’s rise and fall. Bringing to bear an extensive range of archival materials, Davis offers a novel perspective on a previously unstudied area of American Jewish economic activity—the making and selling of liquor, wine, and beer—and reveals that alcohol commerce played a crucial role in Jewish immigrant acculturation and the growth of Jewish communities in the United States. But prohibition’s triumph cast a pall on American Jews’ history in the alcohol trade, forcing them to revise, clarify, and defend their communal and civic identities, both to their fellow Americans and to themselves.Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.JewsAlcohol useUnited StatesAttitudesAlcoholic beverage industryUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAlcoholic beverage industryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAlcoholLaw and legislationUnited StatesUnited StatesEthnic relationsElectronic books.JewsAlcohol useAttitudes.Alcoholic beverage industryHistoryAlcoholic beverage industryHistoryAlcoholLaw and legislation363.4/1089924073Davis Marni1026357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457242803321Jews and booze2441231UNINA