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Title Jews and their foodways / edited by Anat Helman
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages .)
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual ; xxviii
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 28.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Food -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Jews -- Food -- History
Jewish cooking -- History
Food -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Jewish cooking
Jews -- Food
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Helman, Anat, editor
UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). MaRLi UPSO 2016 OSO Collection
ISBN 9780190461935
0190461934
Other Titles At head of title: Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem