The Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society & Beck Archives
Center for Judaic Studies & University Libraries
Cordially Invite You to Join Us at the RMJHS Annual Meeting
Jews & Booze:
Becoming Americans in the
Age of Prohibition
Sunday — October 18th, 2015 — 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
East Side Kosher Deli, 499 S. Elm St., Denver, CO
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
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Join us for lunch & lecture with Prof. Marni Davis
Associate Professor, Georgia State University
Prof. Davis will examine American Jews’ complicated relationship to alcohol during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. The making and selling of liquor, wine, and beer played a crucial role in
Jewish economic success, immigrant acculturation, and the growth of Jewish communities in
the United States. However, prohibition’s triumph cast a pall on the American Jewish role in the
alcohol trade, forcing Jews to revise, clarify, and defend their communal and civic identities
both to their fellow Americans and themselves.
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Please make ____ reservations ($18 RMJHS members; $20 non-members) for
“Jews & Booze: Becoming Americans in the Age of Prohibition”
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I have enclosed $_________.
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PLEASE CHECK SANDWICH CHOICE(S): Tuna ___/ Turkey ___/ Pastrami ___/
(served with salad and coffee or soft drink)
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Name(s):__________________________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ________________________Email:______________________________________________
Please mail your check, payable to RMJHS/DU, to:
RMJHS, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver
2000 E. Asbury Ave. Ste., 157
Denver, CO 80208-0911
For more information, please call
(303) 871-3016