{"product_id":"jews-and-booze-marni-davis-9780814720288","title":"Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces American Jews' complicated relationship to alcohol through the years leading up to and after prohibition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJews and Booze\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marni Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814720285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814720288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Sami Rohr Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2011 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/14\/2011 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2012 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012","brand":"Marni Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926443065599,"sku":"9780814720288","price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c468c115-fab3-4587-97cd-c3aae060a506.jpg?v=1681083109","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jews-and-booze-marni-davis-9780814720288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}