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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

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The Humble Bagel

By Zachary Loeb

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It is hard to think about Jewish food without thinking of the humble bagel, which has long been a staple of the Jewish culinary experience.  And though the bagel has been known to occasionally be a subject of heated disagreement – families have been torn apart amidst fierce debates over whether the Montreal bagel is superior…

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Attention foodies!

Apply now for Tent: Food NYC. Through cooking demos, writing workshops, food crawls, and museum visits you’ll be immersed in the diverse world of Jewish food culture from October 19-26th. The program is free and open to all Americans and Canadians ages 21-30. 

Hurry! The deadline is June 29, 2014.

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