Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli Merwin TedPaperback
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book CouncilThe history of an iconic food in Jewish American cultureFor much of the twentieth century,…
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Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book CouncilThe history of an iconic food in Jewish American cultureFor much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. As a social space it rivaled-and in some ways surpassed-the synagogue as the primary gathering place for the Jewish community. In popular culture it has been the setting for classics like When Harry Met Sally. And today, after a long period languishing in the trenches of the hopelessly old-fashioned, it is experiencing a nostalgic resurgence.Pastrami on Rye is the first full-length history of the New York Jewish deli. The deli, argues Ted Merwin, reached its full flowering not in the immigrant period, as some might assume, but in the interwar era, when the children of Jewish
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