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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…

Contributor:

Claudia Roden

Places:

Hampstead, United Kingdom

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Mizrahi, Food and drink, Jewish identity, Diaspora

Categories:

Food & drink, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Photograph in two parts: on the left, two women in head coverings are preparing food at a stove; on the right, two people are around a table while a woman brushes a young girl's hair.
From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Mid-Century America
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My mother often sent me shopping to 18th Avenue (not a far distance, but for a kid it was unfamiliar territory), the district of Middle Eastern groceries, whose shopkeepers were…

Contributor:

Jack Marshall

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Date:

2005

Subjects:

Food and drink, Jewish identity, Mizrahi, Arab-Jewish relations, Adolescence, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, (Auto)biography
Letter to a Nursing Convention in St. Louis
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion. Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…

Contributor:

Rose Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Health, Medicine, Poverty, Mizrahi, Israel/Israelis, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters