>Some estimates say 30-40% of Jewish people — women and kids included — worked as makers or purveyors of hooch in Eastern Europe until the end of the 19th century
>Polish landowners saw they could make 50 percent greater profits by turning grain into alcohol than by selling it for food, Jews seized the chance to play an integral role. At the time, Polish Jews could neither become nobility nor work the land as peasants. While many Jews turned to trading and peddling, the lords saw a different opportunity. Jews were considered good with business, they reasoned well, and would be unlikely to drink up the product. So, under a leasing system known in Polish as propinacja, Jews were granted exclusive rights to run the alcohol industries.
>Polish Jews could neither become nobility nor work the land as peasants.
>The forgotten history of Jews in the alcohol industry
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-forgotten-history-of-jews-in-the-alcohol-industry/
>Some estimates say 30-40% of Jewish people — women and kids included — worked as makers or purveyors of hooch in Eastern Europe until the end of the 19th century
>Polish Jews could neither become nobility nor work the land as peasants.
Fucking missed the point of that law entirely.