Originally posted by Darryl Kenyon
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It remains the case today. Have a look 'round any town or city centre on a Friday or Saturday night and you will see all sorts of alcohol fueled, ridiculous behaviour.
I thought the problems with alcohol during the Victorian period were widely understood. It is why there were temperance movements, parliamentary debates on the issue and church ministers taking their sermons into fields in an attempt to attract the attention of an unruly working class blighted by alcohol.
It's all there in the article which draws upon contemporary sources. Those sources suggest that when it comes to public behaviour and drunkenness, the difference between Jewish behaviour and non Jewish behaviour was marked.
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