Author:
Davis, Marni.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Descriptionx, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index.
