Knish : in search of the Jewish soul food PDF
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K nis h Silver_Knish_Book.indb 1 1/31/2014 11:51:26 AM Silver_Knish_Book.indb 2 1/31/2014 11:51:26 AM h s i n K ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ In Search of the Jewish Soul Food Laura SILver ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ Brandeis University Press Waltham, Massachusetts Silver_Knish_Book.indb 3 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Brandeis University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com © 2014 Laura Silver All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed and typeset in Skolar and Thirsty Rough by Eric M. Brooks University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce the following: Five lines from “In the City of Slaughter” from Selected Poems by C. N. Bialik, translated by David Aberbach. Translation copyright © 2004 by David Aberbach. Published in 2004 by the Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., www.overlookpress.com. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Silver, Laura. Knish: in search of the Jewish soul food / Laura Silver. pages cm.—(HBI series on Jewish women) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISbn 978–1–61168–312–7 (cloth : alk. paper)— ISbn 978–1–61168–545–9 (ebook) 1. Jewish cooking—History. 2. Jews—Food—History. I. Title. tx724.S539 2014 641.5'676—dc23 2013040545 5 4 3 2 1 Silver_Knish_Book.indb 4 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM To my parents barbara & MIchaeL SILver with love Silver_Knish_Book.indb 5 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Silver_Knish_Book.indb 6 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, And the blind man’s blindness when he’s gone away, And a thread of foam—a sign of the sea— And a bit of cloud snarled in a tree. “Ver Vet Blaybn?” from Poems from a Diary (1974), ‰ by Abraham Sutzkever Courtesy of Rina Sutzkever Kalderon The receding world of our ancestors continues to shine because we are all from there. Knyszyn town historian Henryk Stasiewicz ‰ Who doesn’t love a knish? Joan Rivers ‰ Silver_Knish_Book.indb 7 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Silver_Knish_Book.indb 8 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Contents xi Preface ‰ 1 Au Revoir, Mrs. Stahl’s ‰ Brighton Beach to the Lower East Side 73 In Search of the First Knish ‰ From the Holy Land to the Old Country 137 Mrs. Goldberg to Gangsta Rap ‰ The Knish in Culture 165 A Brief History of Competitive Knish Eating ‰ 175 The Fine Art of Knish Making ‰ 209 Epilogue ‰ 223 Recipe: Mrs. Stahl’s Potato Knishes ‰ 225 Where to Get a Good Knish ‰ 227 Acknowledgments ‰ 235 Notes ‰ 253 Selected Bibliography ‰ 269 Illustration Credits ‰ 271 Index ‰ Silver_Knish_Book.indb 9 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM
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