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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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Kosher Food Production in the United States and the Manischewitz Empire

By Ella Jordan-Smith
Reference Services Librarian, Center for Jewish History

Kosher Food Production in the United States and the Manischewitz Empire

The Jewish population in the U.S. currently makes up just under 2.5% of the total population, with an even lower percentage keeping kosher. Yet, over 40% of the packaged food produced in the U.S. is labeled as kosher, and American food production…

Postcard, Atlantic City. Circa 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.

Reverse: The Breakers on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey: The Largest Kosher Hotel in the United States. Postmarked from Atlantic City, N.J. August 13, 1940 and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. David Turner, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

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