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In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. As liquor became the region's boom industry, Jewish tavernkeepers became integral to both local economies and local social life, presiding over Christian celebrations and dispensing advice, medical remedies and loans. Nevertheless, reformers and government officials, blaming Jewish tavernkeepers for epidemic peasant drunkenness, sought to drive Jews out of the liquor trade. Their efforts were particularly intense and sustained in the Kingdom of Poland. Historians have assumed that this spelled the end of the Polish Jewish liquor trade. However, in Yankel's Tavern, Glenn Dynner uses newly discovered archival sources to demonstrate that many nobles helped their Jewish tavernkeepers evade fees, bans, and expulsions by installing Christians as fronts for their taverns. The result-a vast underground Jewish liquor trade-reflects an impressive level of local Polish-Jewish co-existence that contrasts with the more familiar story of anti-Semitism and violence.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Yankel's Tavern
• Author: Glenn Dynner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780190204143
• ISBN: 0190204141
• ID: 04511788
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 235 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2015

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