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Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
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Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Glenn Dynner


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Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ingrained as to endure even the rise of Hasidism's robust drinking culture. 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, a semi-autonomous province of the Russian empire that was often treated as a laboratory for social and political change.
Historians have assumed that this spelled the end of the Polish Jewish liquor trade. However, newly discovered archival sources 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. By tapping into sources that reveal the lives of everyday Jews and Christians in the Kingdom of Poland, Yankel's Tavern transforms our understanding of the region during the tumultuous period of Polish uprisings and Jewish mystical revival.

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  • Title Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
  • Author Glenn Dynner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2015. 272p. Paperback. Glenn Dynner has written a history of Jewish tavern keepers that serves as a point of entry into a much b
  • Date 2014-12-01
  • ISBN 9780190204143 / 0190204141
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.74 x 0.6 in (23.06 x 17.12 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013019941
  • Dewey Decimal Code 647.954

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Glenn Dynner is Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, which received the Koret Publication Prize, and editor of Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe. He has been a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and is currently the NEH Senior Scholar at the Center for Jewish History in New York.
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