||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Not Just an Academic Book|By Lionel S. Taylor|As the other reviews have pointed out Jews and Booze is an academic book. But that does not mean that only those with an academic interest in the topic should read it. More than a history about Prohibition this is a story about an ethnic groups efforts to integrate into the larger American society and how the groups relationship||"[This reviewer] has always been amazed at the ability of academics to take inherently interesting subjects, like TV and sex, and make them incredibly boring. Davis manages to avoid this, producing an account which is at once both highly readable and yet stil
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 and security. The two groups possessed incompatible visions of what it meant to be a productive and patriotic American--and in 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Const...
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