A Major Breakthrough: When Passover Cakes Were Big News
By Rachel Gordan, National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence 2025
A Major Breakthrough: When Passover Cakes Were Big News
At the end of the summer of 1955, Jewish novelist Herman Wouk’s (1915-2019) fourth novel, Marjorie Morningstar was published. At this point in his career, Wouk was a celebrity-writer, having won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his war novel, The Caine Mutiny…
