In addition to the writings, source sheets, videos, and podcasts available on this website, there are still plenty of Jewish drinking-related secondary literature out there. Below, you can find articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations:
- Alder, Daniel. “Drinking on Purim: When to Say When”. Judaism 40, Issue 1. (Winter 1991): 6-15.
- Bainwol, Suzanne and Dr. Charles F. Gressard. “The Incidence of Jewish Alcoholism: A Review of the Literature.” Journal of Drug Education 15:3 (September 1985): 217–224.
- Baruch, Melanie, Abraham Benarroch, and Gary E. Rockman. “Alcohol and Substance Use in the Jewish Community: A Pilot Study”. Journal of Addiction (2015): 1-4.
- Bergmann, Claudia D. “Drink and Drinking in Early Jewish Texts: Describing a Meal in the World to Come.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 30:3 (2021): 117–132.
- Bleich, J. David. “The Whiskey Brouhaha”. Tradition 34:2 (2000): 58-77.
- Broshi, Magen, “Date Beer and Date Wine in Antiquity”. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 139:1 (2007): 55-59.
- Cardozo, Nathan Lopes, “Needed: Redemptive Halakha”, Conversations 23 (Fall 2015): 29-44.
- Davis, Marni. “‘No Whisky Amazons in the Tents of Israel’: American Jews and the Gilded-Age Temperance Movement.” American Jewish History 94.3 (September 2008): 143-173
- Demsky, Aaron. “The Color of Judah’s Eyes”. TheTorah.com (11 January 2017) https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-color-of-judahs-eyes
- Farber, Zev, “The Original Reason for Spilling Wine: Protection from the Plagues”, TheTorah.com (7 April 2020) [https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-original-reason-for-spilling-wine-protection-from-the-plagues]
- Glassner, Barry and Bruce Berg. “How Jews Avoid Alcohol Problems”. American Sociological Review Vol. 45, No. 4 (August 1980): 647-664.
- Glazer, Nathan, “The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober”, Commentary (February 1952) – link
- Golinkin, David, “Why Do We Spill 16 Drops of Wine While Reciting the Ten Plagues During the Seder?”, Responsa in a Moment 10.6 (10 June 2016) [https://schechter.edu/why-do-we-spill-16-drops-of-wine-while-reciting-the-ten-plagues-during-the-seder-responsa-in-a-moment-volume-10-issue-no-6-april-2016/]
- Grossman, Eliav, “‘Miracles Do Not Happen at Every Hour’: Purim-Drinking as Anti-Christian Polemic”, The Lehrhaus (9 March 2017) [https://www.thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/%E2%80%9Cmiracles-do-not-happen-at-every-hour%E2%80%9D-purim-drinking-as-anti-christian-polemic/]
- Homan, Michael, “Beer and its Drinkers: An Ancient Near Eastern Love Story”. Near Eastern Archaeology 67.2 (June 2004): 84-95.
- Homan, Michael, “Did the Ancient Israelites Drink Beer?”. Biblical Archaeological Review 36.5 (September/October 2010): 48-56, 78.
- Klein, Gil P. “Torah in Triclinia: The Rabbinic Banquet and the Significance of Architecture”. The Jewish Quarterly Review 102.3 (Summer 2012): 325-370.
- Loewenthal, Kate Miriam. “Addiction: Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Judaism”. Religions vol. 5 (2014): 972-984.
- Macht, David I. “A Pharmacological Appreciation of References to Alcohol in the Hebrew Bible”. The Scientific Monthly 29.2 (August 1929): 163-176.
- Males, Rabbi Akiva. “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink and Dukhen: Birkat Kohanim and Simhat Torah in the Diaspora”. Tradition 49.2 (Summer 2016): 53-64.
- Malkiel, David. “Gentile Wine and Italian Exceptionalism”. Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 68 (2017): 346-68.
- Naiman, Rabbi Kivi, “Brewing up Issues: Beer and the Kosher Consumer”. Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society vol. 76 (June 2021): 35-60.
- Poleyeff, Israel. “Stam Yeinom”. Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 14 (Fall 1987): 67-82.
- Ron, Zvi. “‘Our Own Joy is Lessened and Incomplete’: The History of an Interpretation of Sixteen Drops of Wine at the Seder“. Hakirah 19 (Winter 2015): 237-255.
- Ron, Zvi. “L-Ḥayyim”, Ḥakirah vol. 31 (Winter 2022): 345-355.
- Ron, Zvi. “Spilling Wine While Reciting the Plagues ‘To Diminish Our Joy’?”, TheTorah.com (6 April 2020) [https://www.thetorah.com/article/spilling-wine-while-reciting-the-plagues-to-diminish-our-joy]
- Roth, Pinchas. “Kosher Wine in Medieval Provence and Languedoc- Production and Commerce”. Revue des Études Juives Vol. 178 (2019): 59-78.
- Sarna, Jonathan D. “Passover Raisin Wine, The American Temperance Movement, and Mordecai Noah: The Origins, Meaning, And Wider Significance Of A Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Religious Practice”. Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 59 (1988): 269-288.
- Schremer, Adiel. “Jewish Wine with Christian Help: The Halakhic Complexities of Jewish-Christian Co-operation in Medieval France” (presented at the “Jewish Economic Players and Halakha in the Latin West (12th-15th centuries): Jews’ Wine and Viniculture” Conference in Paris in 2015).
- Shaul, Michal. “Kiddush Club: Fraternity, Authority, Class and Gender Challenges in the Modern Orthodox Synagogue.” Contemporary Jewry (12 July 2022).
- Shaul, Michal. “Happy Hour: The Communal Kiddush and Its Roles in the Synagogue World.” Jewish Culture and History, Vol. 24, Iss. 4 (2023)
- Sherman, Tina M. “‘He Tethers His Donkey to the Vine’ – Judah Exported Soreqa Wine”. TheTorah.com (17 December 2021) https://www.thetorah.com/article/he-tethers-his-donkey-to-the-vine-judah-exported-soreqa-wine
- Soloveitchik, Haym. “Can Halakhic Texts Talk History?” AJS Review Vol. 3 (April 1978): 153-196.
- Sperber, Daniel. “The Prohibition of Eating Meat and Drinking Wine During the Three Weeks”. JOFA Journal 7:2 (Summer 2008): 22-23, 34.
- Sprecher, Hannah. “‘Let Them Drink and Forget Our Poverty’: Orthodox Rabbis React to Prohibition.” American Jewish Archives, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1991): 135-179.
- Stern, Sacha. “Compulsive Libationers: Non-Jews and Wine in Early Rabbinic Sources.” Journal of Jewish Studies 64.1 (2013): 19-44.
- Unkovic, Charles M.; Rudolf J. Adler; and Susan E. Miller. “The Contemporary State of Jewish Alcoholism”. Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1976-77): 19-26.
- Vaaknin, Rafi, “Fathers and Sons and Wine: The Oedipal Complex”. Hakirah 25 (Fall 2018): 251-263.
- Weinstein, Rosie. “Blowing the Lid off Sherry Casks“. Kol Mevaseret (2012): 87-100.
- Weinstein, Yaakov S. “Grape Juice: the Solution to Prohibition.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring 2015): 19-32.
- Whitley, C.F. “A Note on Habakkuk 2:15”. The Jewish Quarterly Review NS Vol. 66, No. 3 (January 1976): 143-147.
- Wonder, Arnold A. “Ben Sira and the Praises of Wine”. The Jewish Quarterly Review NS Vol. 61, No. 2 (October 1970): 155-166.
- Zivotofsky, Ari, “What’s the Truth about…Birkat Hamazon over Wine?“. Jewish Action (Winter 2000): ?-?
- Zivotofsky, Ari, “Wine from Havdalah, Women and Beards“. Hakirah 10 (Summer 2010): 175-187.
- David, Abraham. “Use of Wine by Near Eastern Jews in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond”. In “In the Dwelling of a Sage Lie Precious Treasures”: Essays in Jewish Studies in Honor of Shnayer Z. Leiman, edited by Yitzhak Berger and Chaim Milikowsky, 225-240. New York City: Yeshiva University Press, 2020.
- Ebeling, Jennie R. and Michael M. Homan. “Baking and Brewing Beer in the Israelite Household: A Study of Women’s Cooking Technology”. In The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East, edited by Beth Alpert Nakhai, 45-62. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
- Geller, Markham J. “Diet and Regimen in the Babylonian Talmud”. In Food and Identity in the Ancient World, edited by Cristiano Grotanelli and Lucio Milano, 217-242. Padua, Italy: S.A.R.G.O.N., 2004.
- Horowitz, Roger. “Man-O-Manischewitz”. In Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food, 127-161. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
- Homan, Michael. “Beer, Barley, and שֵׁכָר in the Hebrew Bible”. In Le-David Maskil: A Birthday Tribute for David Noel Freedman, edited by Richard Elliott Friedman and William H. C. Propp, 25-38. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004.
- Marks, Susan. “How Ancient Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians Drank Their Wine” In Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food, edited by Aaron Gross, Jody Myers, and Jordan Rosenblum. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 170-188.
- Putzu, Vadim. “Tasting Heaven: Wine and the World to Come from the Talmud to Safed”. In olam ha-zeh v’olam ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice, edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon, 151-170. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2017.
- Rosenblum, Jordan D. “Inclined to Decline Reclining? Women, Corporeality, and Dining Posture in Early Rabbinic Literature”. In Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table. Edited by Dennis E. Smith and Hal Taussig, 261-274. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Schwartz, Seth. “No Dialogue at the Symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud”. In The End of Dialogue in Antiquity, edited by Simon Goldhill, 193-216. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Wulkan, Reba. “The Grape and the Vine: A Motif in Contemporary Jewish Textiles.” In Creating Textiles: Makers, Methods, Markets. Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Inc. New York, NY, September 23–26, 1998, 369-377. Earleville, MD: Textile Society of America, Inc., 1999.
- Gersten, Eli. Review of Wine, Whisky & Halachah: A Halachic Overview to The Laws of Wine and Whisky, Including Scotch Whisky Matured in Sherry Casks, by HaRav Shraga Kallus and Rabbi Avraham Chaim Slansky. Jewish Action 80, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 104-105.
- Bedzow, Ira. “Cups of Redemption”. Torah Musings. 15 March 2017. https://www.torahmusings.com/2017/03/cups-of-redemption/.
- Berger, Shulamith Z. “Pesach, Prohibition, and the Grape Juice Wars of the 1920s”. YU Library Blog (18 April 2016) [https://blogs.yu.edu/library/2016/04/18/pesach-prohibition-and-the-grape-juice-wars-of-the-1920s/]
- Brodt, Eliezer. “The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?” The Seforim Blog. 18 March 2013. https://seforimblog.com/2013/03/the-cup-for-visitor-what-lies-behind/.
- Bush, Asher. “Did The Talmud Really Say To Get Drunk On Purim?”. Torah Musings. 20 March 2019. https://www.torahmusings.com/2019/03/did-the-talmud-really-say-to-get-drunk-on-purim/.
- Bush, Asher. “Havdala With Wine During The Nine Days”. Torah Musings. 1 August 2014. https://www.torahmusings.com/2014/08/havdala-wine-nine-days/.
- Cox, Isaiah. “Wine Strength and Dilution.” The Seforim Blog. 1 November 2012. https://seforimblog.com/2012/11/wine-strength-and-dilution/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Chol Hamo’ed: Meat, Wine, and Clothing”. Torah Musings. 3 April 2015. https://www.torahmusings.com/2015/04/chol-hamoed-meat-wine-and-clothing/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Coffee”. Torah Musings. 22 October 2018. https://www.torahmusings.com/2018/10/coffee-2/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Drinking on Purim”. Torah Musings. 12 February 2013. https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/02/drinking-on-purim-2/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Eating or Drinking Before Kiddush”. Torah Musings. 30 April 2013. https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/04/eating-or-drinking-before-kiddush/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Kiddush on Liquor”. Torah Musings. 5 March 2013. https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/03/kiddush-on-liquor-2/.
- Enkin, Ari. “L’chaim and Other Drinking Customs”. Torah Musings. 14 January 2019. https://www.torahmusings.com/2019/01/lchaim-and-other-drinking-customs/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Simchat Yom Tov”. Torah Musings. 27 March 2012. https://www.torahmusings.com/2012/03/simchat-yom-tov/.
- Enkin, Ari. “The Five Mitzvot of the Seder (Part II)”. Torah Musings. 15 April 2008. https://www.torahmusings.com/2008/04/five-mitzvot-of-seder-part-ii/.
- Enkin, Ari. “The Four Cups of Wine”. Torah Musings. 3 April 2012. https://www.torahmusings.com/2012/04/the-four-cups-of-wine/.
- Enkin, Ari. “Wine: Exempting Other Drinks”. Torah Musings. 19 November 2018. https://www.torahmusings.com/2018/11/wine-exempting-other-drinks/.
- Gruber, Mayer I. “How Did Rashi Make a Living?” The Seforim Blog. 13 August 2007. https://seforimblog.com/2007/08/mayer-i-gruber-how-did-rashi-make/.
- “Jews, Drinking & Kiddush Clubs.” The Seforim Blog. 5 August 2008. https://seforimblog.com/2008/08/jews-drinking-kiddush-clubs/.
- Lebovits, Moishe Dovid. “Drinking on Purim”. Torah Musings. 13 March 2014. https://www.torahmusings.com/2014/03/drinking-on-purim-3/.
- Leibowitz, Rabbi Aryeh. “Drinking Wine During the Nine Days and the Authority of the Shulchan Aruch”. Torah Musings. 5 July 2010. https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/07/drinking-wine-during-the-nine-days-and-the-authority-of-the-shulchan-aruch/.
- Linzer, Rabbi Dov, “The Status of a Non-Believer Regarding Wine and Other Matters: Part 1 – Status of a Shabbos Violator in Rishonim and Poskim”. The Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies Teshuvot at YCT (28 August 2016).
- Linzer, Rabbi Dov, “The Status of a Non-Believer Regarding Wine and Other Matters: Part 2 – Status of a Shabbat Violator, Historical Development and Conclusion”. The Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies Teshuvot at YCT (28 August 2016).
- Linzer, Rabbi Dov, “The Status of a Non-Believer Regarding Wine and Other Matters: Part 3 – Status of One Who Does Not Believe, in Gemara and Rambam”. The Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies Teshuvot at YCT (28 August 2016).
- Linzer, Rabbi Dov, “The Status of a Non-Believer Regarding Wine and Other Matters: Part 4 – Status of One Who Does Not Believe, Understanding Rambam”. The Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies Teshuvot at YCT (28 August 2016).
- Linzer, Rabbi Dov, “The Status of a Non-Believer Regarding Wine and Other Matters: Part 5 – Different Types of Heresy and Applications for Today”. The Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies Teshuvot at YCT (28 August 2016).
- Mann, Daniel. “Joining a Shushan Purim Seuda”. Torah Musings. 21 February 2018. https://www.torahmusings.com/2018/02/joining-shushan-purim-seuda/.
- Mann, Daniel. “Missing the Beginning of Havdala”. Torah Musings. 10 May 2017. https://www.torahmusings.com/2017/05/missing-beginning-havdala/.
- Student, Gil. “Better Wine”. Torah Musings. 10 February 2013. https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/02/better-wine/.
- Student, Gil. “Drinking Rabbis”. Torah Musings. 10 July 2017. https://www.torahmusings.com/2017/07/drinking-rabbis/.
- Student, Gil. “Grape Juice During the Nine Days”. Torah Musings. 28 August 2009. https://www.torahmusings.com/2009/08/grape-juice-during-nine-days/.
- Student, Gil. “Havdalah on Coffee”. Torah Musings. 19 November 2008. https://www.torahmusings.com/2008/11/havdalah-on-coffee/.
- Student, Gil. “Women and Kiddush”. Torah Musings. 21 August 2017. https://www.torahmusings.com/2017/08/women_kiddush/.
- Yitzhak. “Of Fishy Milk and Winey Whiskey”. Bein Din LeDin. 26 July 2018. https://bdld.info/2018/07/26/of-fishy-milk-and-winey-whiskey/.
- Ziring, Jonathan. “Bars and Office Parties in Jewish Law”. Torah Musings. 17 December 2013. https://www.torahmusings.com/2013/12/bars-and-office-parties-in-jewish-law/.
- Bendon, Mordechai. Sherry Cask Usage in the Scottish Whisky Industry. NP: Mordechai Bendon, 2021
- Blaine, Rabbi Allan, ed. Alcoholism and the Jewish Community. New York: Commission On Synagogue Relation, Federation Of Jewish Philanthropies, 1980.
- Cohen, Rabbi Dovid. Kashrus Halacha – Alcoholic Beverages: The halachos of alcoholic beverages, wine, and grape juice as they apply in the modern era, arranged according to the order of Shulchan Aruch YD 114 and 123. NP: Lulu, 2021.
- Davis, Marni. Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
- Death, James. The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus ; (a Confirmation of Biblical Accuracy), with a Visit to an Arab Brewery, Notes on the Oriental Firment Products, Etc., and Map of the Routes of the Exodus, with Description of the Different Authors’ Contentions. London: Trübner & Co., 1887.
- Dynner, Glenn. Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Langer, Irving. The Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Fine Wine. Jerusalem & New York: Gefen Publishing House, 2012.
- Niehaus, Akiva. Sherry Casks – A Halachic Perspective: A Comprehensive Overview of Scotch Production and its Kashrus Implications. Second Edition. Chicago: Chicago Community Kollel, 2012.
- Rosenblum, Jordan. Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020.
- Scheindlin, Raymond. Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poetry on the Good Life. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Soloveitchik, Haym. The Jewish Wine Trade and the Origin of Jewish Moneylending: Principles and Pressures. Liverpool, UK: Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2023.
- Travis, Daniel Yaakov. Wine & Wisdom: A Halachic Overview of Fine Wines and Their Brachos. NY: Philipp Feldheim, 2016.
- Welton, Rebekah. “He is a Glutton and a Drunkard”: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.
- Gross, Thomas. “Influence of Parenting Style on Frequency of Alcohol Consumption by Jewish Male and Female Emerging Adults”. PhD diss., Walden University, 2021.
- Kohn, Eli. “Drunkenness, Prostitution and Immodest Appearances in Hebrew Biblical Narrative, Second Temple Writings and Early Rabbinic Literature: A Literary and Rhetorical Study”. PhD diss., University of the Free State, 2006.
- Putzu, Vadim. “Bottled Poetry/Quencher of Hopes: Wine as a Symbol and as an Instrument in Safedian Kabbalah and Beyond”. PhD diss., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 2015.
- Eliach, Ayalon. “Mordechai the Villain: The Untold Story of Drinking on Purim.” Ha’aretz. (26 February 2015).
- Federman, Eliyahu. “Judge Overstepped Bounds in Chabad Drinking Case.” Forward (13 November 2014).
- Harcsztark, Rabbi Tully, and Dr. Rivka Press-Schwartz. “The data don’t lie: Yeshiva high school students have a binge-drinking problem. Here’s what we can do about it.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (23 February 2021).
- Harcsztark, Rabbi Tully, and Dr. Rivka Press-Schwartz. Substance Use in Yeshiva High Schools: A Look at the Data.” Jewish Link (February 24, 2021).
- Lightman, Dr. Hylton I. “To Drink or to Be Drunk – That is No Question”. OU.org (4 March 2019).
- Motzen, Rabbi Yisrael. “Kiddush Club is Not The Problem”. Mishpacha (14 September 2021).
- Perice, Rabbi Michael, and Marla Kaufman. “Nice Jewish kids struggle with addiction, too. It’s past time for a Jewish solution.” Forward (28 July 2022).
- Román, Rachel. “Staying sober on Purim: Jews with alcohol use disorder can be triggered during the drinking holiday”. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (11 March 2022).
- Winberg, Rabbi Seth. “Getting drunk on Purim is dangerous, not a mitzvah.” Forward. (15 March 2022).
- Yanklowitz, Rabbi Dr. Shmuly. “Kiddush Clubs: A Destructive Force?” New York Jewish Week (13 August 2010).