Jews and their foodways

Jews and their foodways / edited by Anat Helman.

Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, this volume presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their foodways.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Other Authors: Helman, Anat (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 28.
Subjects:
Food > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Jews > Food > History.
Jewish cooking > History.
Food > Religious aspects > Judaism
Jewish cooking
Jews > Food
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Symposium: Jews and Their Foodways. Introduction / Sidney Mintz
  • Salo on challah: Soviet Jews' experience of food in the 1920s-1950s / Anna Shternshis
  • In the wake of starvation: Jewish desplaced persons and food in post-Holocaust Germany / Hagit Lavsky
  • "The new immigrant must not only learn, he must also forget": the making of Eretz Israeli Ashkenazi cuisine / Ofra Tene
  • Craving meat during Israel's austerity period, 1947-1953 / Orit Rozin
  • Longing for the aromas of Baghdad: food, emigration, and transformation in the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel in the 1950s / Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
  • Cutting into the flesh of the community: ritual slaughter, meat consumption, and the transition form Ethiopia to Israel / Hagar Salamon
  • Two narratives of Israeli food: "Jewish" versus "ethnic" / Liora Gvion
  • Size matters: Israeli chefs cooking up a nation / Nir Avieli
  • A tapestry of tastes: Jewish women of Syrian descent and their cooking in Mexico and Israel / Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
  • Bagel and falafel: two iconic Jewish foods and one modern Jewish identity / Shaul Stampfer
  • The contemporary Jewish food movement in North America: a report from the field(s) / Andrea Most
  • Jews and fat: thoughts toward a history of an image in the second age of biology / Sander L. Gilman
  • Paradoxes of Jews and their foods / Richard Wilk
  • Review essays. Exploring the universe of camps and ghettos: classifications and interpretations of the Nazi topography of terror: Geoffrey P. Megargee (ed.), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945, vol. 1, Early camps, youth camps, and concentration camps and subcamps under the SS-Business and administratin Main Office (WVHA) ; Dan Michman, The emergence of Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust ; Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani (eds.), The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust / Kim Wünschmann
  • The literary character of the Haskalah: Olga Litvak, Haskalah: the romantic movement in Judaism / Amir Banbaji
  • Book reviews. Antisemitism, Holocaust, and genocide. Evan Burr Bukey, Jews and intermarriage in Nazi Austria / Barbara F. Okun
  • Biography, history, and the social sciences. Pierre Birnbaum, La répulique et le cochon / David Weinberg
  • Yossi Goldstein, Golda: biografiyah / Matthew Silver
  • Sebastian Hoepfner, Jewish organizations in transatlantic perspective: patterns of contemporary Jewish politics in Germany and the United States / Tobias Brinkmann
  • Alice Kessler-Harris, A difficult woman: the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / Nancy Sinkoff
  • Guy Miron, The waning of emancipation: Jewish history, memory and the rise of fascism in Germany, France and Hungary / Pierre Birnbaum
  • Stephen Sharot, Comparative perspectives on Judaism and Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael
  • Azriel Shohet, The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 / Antony Polonsky
  • Gerald Sorin, Howard Fast: life and literature in the left lane / Stephen J. Whitfield
  • Scott Ury, Barricades and banners: the Revolution of 1905 and the transformation of Warsaw Jewry / Brian Horowitz
  • Kalman Weiser, Jewish people, Yiddish nation: Noah Prylucki and the folkists in Poland / Gali Drucker Bar-Am
  • Religion, thought, and culture. Nathan Abrams, The new Jew in film: exploring Jewishness and Judaism in contemorary cinema / Aharon Feuerstein
  • Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Mysticism in twentieth century Hebrew literature / Galili Shahar
  • Aliza Cohen-Mushlin et al., Synagogues in Lithuania: a catalogue / Sharman Kadish
  • David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis, Pledges of Jewish allegiance: conversion, law, and policymaking in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orthodox responsa / Shmuel Shilo
  • Sharman Kadish, The synagogues of Britain and Ireland: an architectural and social history / Vladimir Levin
  • Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Yoel Cohen, God, Jews and the media: religion and Israel's media / Kimmy Caplan
  • Beverly Mizrachi, Paths to middle-class mobility among second-generation Moroccan immigrant women in Israel / Henriette Dahan Kaley
  • Anita Shapira, Israel: a history ; Ari Shavit, My promised land: the triumph and tragedy of Israel / Gideon Shimoni.

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