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Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the
Jewish Book Council Traces American Jews' complicated relationship
to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition
From 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.
Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the
Jewish Book Council Traces American Jews' complicated relationship
to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition
From 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.
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