Introduction / Introduction / Nir Avieli -- Size matters: Israeli chefs cooking up a nation / 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 -- Paradoxes of Jews and their foods / Richard Wilk -- 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. Yossi Goldstein, Golda: biografiyah / Matthew Silver -- The literary character of the Haskalah: Olga Litvak, Haskalah: the romantic movement in Judaism / Amir Banbaji -- Biography, history, and the social sciences. 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 -- Kalman Weiser, Jewish people, Yiddish nation: Noah Prylucki and the folkists in Poland / Gali Drucker Bar-Am -- 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. Ari Shavit, My promised land: the triumph and tragedy of Israel / Gideon Shimoni. 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, 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.
Series:
Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual, 0740-8625 ; xxviii
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