Marcus Jastrow. A Lecture on Temperance.

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

Hebrew Orphan Asylum Printing Establishment

New York

1874

Singerman 2449.

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.