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Jews and Their Foodways

Anat Helman

Abstract

This book is dedicated to the topic of food. As a repetitive daily practice, eating might seem banal, but as this book argues, there is no other fundamental aspect of human behavior except sexuality so influenced by ideas as eating. Furthermore, few ethnic groups have questions of identity, membership, and food practices seen in such clear and formalized ways as the Jews. It should be noted that this book is about Jews and their food ways rather than about Judaism and food. The chapters here cover a wide range of historical, sociological, and anthropological aspects related to food and eating ... More

Keywords: food, ethnic groups, identity, membership, food practices, Jews, Judaic religion, Judaic tradition, Judaic thought, Jewish food

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780190265427
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190265427.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Anat Helman, editor
Senior Lecturer of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Epigraph

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Preface

Symposium

Jews and Their Foodways

Introduction

Sidney Mintz, (Johns Hopkins University)

Salo on Challah

Anna Shternshis, (University of Toronto)

In the Wake of Starvation

Hagit Lavsky, (The Hebrew University)

“The New Immigrant Must Not Only Learn, He Must Also Forget”

Ofra Tene, (Tel Aviv)

Craving Meat during Israel’s Austerity Period, 1947–1953

Orit Rozin, (Tel Aviv University)

Longing for the Aromas of Baghdad

Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, (Ben-Gurion University)

Cutting into the Flesh of the Community

Hagar Salamon, (The Hebrew University)

Two Narratives of Israeli Food

Liora Gvion, (Kibbutzim College of Education)

Size Matters

Nir Avieli, (Ben-Gurion University)

A Tapestry of Tastes

Paulette Kershenovich Schuster, (The Hebrew University)

Bagel and Falafel

Shaul Stampfer, (The Hebrew University)

The Contemporary Jewish Food Movement in North America

Andrea Most, (University of Toronto)

Jews and Fat

Sander L. Gilman, (Emory University)

Paradoxes of Jews and Their Foods

Richard Wilk, (Indiana University)

Review Essays

Exploring the Universe of Camps and Ghettos

Anat Helman

The Literary Character of the Haskalah

Anat Helman

Book Reviews

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Evan Burr Bukey, Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 216 pp.

Anat Helman

Biography, History, and the Social Sciences

Pierre Birnbaum, La République et le cochon. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2013. 193 pp.

Anat Helman

Yossi Goldstein, Golda: biografiyah. Beersheba: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2012. 649 pp.

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Sebastian Hoepfner, Jewish Organizations in Transatlantic Perspective: Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Politics in Germany and the United States. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. xv + 364 pp.

Anat Helman

Alice Kessler-Harris, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012. 439 pp.

Anat Helman

Guy Miron, The Waning of Emancipation: Jewish History, Memory and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France and Hungary. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. x + 308 pp.

Anat Helman

Stephen Sharot, Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. xi + 317 pp.

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Azriel Shohet, The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941, ed. Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman; trans. Faigie Tropper and Moshe Rosman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xxxiv + 754 pp.

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Gerald Sorin, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xi + 512 pp.

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Scott Ury, Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. xxii + 415 pp.

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Kalman Weiser, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. xxi + 389 pp.

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Religion, Thought, and Culture

Nathan Abrams, The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. x + 258 pp.

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Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Mysticism in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010. 441 pp.

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Aliza Cohen-Mushlin et al., Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, 2 vols. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010–2012; vol. 1 (A-M), 336 pp; vol. 2 (N-Z), 471 pp.

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David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis, Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. x + 206 pp.

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Sharman Kadish, The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xiv + 398 pp.; 248 ills.

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Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Yoel Cohen, God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media. London: Routledge, 2012. xiv + 258 pp.

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Beverly Mizrachi, Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. x + 203 pp.

Anat Helman

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012. xiii + 502 pp.

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End Matter

Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIX

Note on Editorial Policy