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Shalom Goldman

Jews and Booze:
Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, by Marni Davis.
New York University Press, 272 pages, $32


Have you ever wondered why many Americans think of kosher wine as sweet and cloying? One obvious answer is that, at one time, a few decades ago, most kosher wine in the United States was sickeningly sugary. And the reason for that, as Marni Davis...