Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews & Alcohol...
...think I'll go out and get plastered, then I won't be so upset by articles like "Jews & Alcohol" [March 17]. Yale's Professor Charles Snyder certainly makes us sound like a self-satisfied, overfed bunch of stinkers. And that song, Shikker Iz a Goy! I'm from an Orthodox Jewish background, and I have never heard of it. The Yale researchers said many could recall it; they must have been oldtimers...
...twelve-year-old son, Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...
...Jews really drink less than other people? And if so, why? The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies last week offered some answers...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...