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...
- By Arnold-Canada
- 21 May 2012
- 04:45PM
Many gentiles gripe that the movie industry is "controlled " by the Jews. Well so what. You do not hear Jews griping that the car industry is controlled by the gentiles. Any gentile had the same chance to come up with the idea to make movies but they did not. some other Jewish entrepreneur did. Booze has been around for as long as humans discovered how to make it. Wine being one of the earliest it became a part of religious rituals of several religions.
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