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The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these mig

Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced

Food is not simply a popularly imagined and well-known manifestation of Jewish culture. For Jews, food has been a means of exclusion, persecution, and assimilat

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adhere

Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities. This identity is enacted dai