num_pages: 354
description: 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 migrations just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories in this volume examine the sometimes bewildering kaleidoscope of food experiences generated by new social contacts trade political revolutions wars and migrations both voluntary and compelled.This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the postWorld War II era in Israel Argentina and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws practices and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system and regulates what can be eaten when how and with whom. Global Jewish Foodways offers a fresh perspective on how historical changes through migration settlement and accommodation transformed Jewish food and customs. 
language: English
title: Global Jewish Foodways: A History
publisher: University of Nebraska Press