Marcus Jastrow. A Lecture on Temperance.

Jastrow, Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, here dismisses the concerns of the Women’s Crusade who were demonstrating against the liquor industry, perceiving alcohol as a cause of much social distress. Jastrow specifically disapproves of the female members of his congregation participating in this growing movement in America, regarding such behavior as being fundamentally un-Jewish. See M. Davis, "No Whisky Amazons in the Tents of Israel," American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement, in: American Jewish History, Vol. 94, no. 3 (2008) pp. 143-73.