Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed

Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.

Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus, Jews show very low rates for all the disorders and pathologies associated with alcohol: arrests for drunkenness, alcoholism, alcoholic psychoses, deaths from illnesses associated with heavy drinking, and the like.

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