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Jews and their foodways

Title
Jews and their foodways / edited by Anat Helman.
ISBN
9780190265427
0190265426
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xi, 323 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, Volume XXVIII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their foodways. The symposium covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America from the 20th century to the 21st."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
At head of title: Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2015
Series
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 28.
Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual ; xxviii
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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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