Intro to Jewish Food
Title
Intro to Jewish Food
Creator
Innovations in Jewish Life Collections
Date
2023
Contributor
Gregg Drinkwater, Hilary Kalisman, Samira Mehta, Maggie Rosenau
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Portable Document Format
Language
English
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Judaism emerged in the ancient Near East thousands of years ago and Jews today can be found in every corner of the globe. Wherever Jews have settled, they have created new foodways reflective of surrounding cultures, legacies of migration, available ingredients, and Jewish religious dietary laws (the system of “kashrut” or the rules that govern which foods are “kosher”).
Jews are a diverse global people, and there is thus no singular “Jewish food.” A “typical” or “traditional” Jewish meal will look very different in India than one in Ethiopia, Poland, Morocco, Brazil, Italy, Australia, or France.
Within this diverse landscape of Jewish food, this exhibit centers on Jewish food in the United States and in Israel/Palestine. As major centers of Jewish immigration, and as home to the world’s two largest Jewish communities (each with roughly 6 million Jews), the Jewish foodways of the United States and of Israel/ Palestine are themselves complex and reflect the influences and cultural traditions of Jews from nearly every place on earth.
Jews are a diverse global people, and there is thus no singular “Jewish food.” A “typical” or “traditional” Jewish meal will look very different in India than one in Ethiopia, Poland, Morocco, Brazil, Italy, Australia, or France.
Within this diverse landscape of Jewish food, this exhibit centers on Jewish food in the United States and in Israel/Palestine. As major centers of Jewish immigration, and as home to the world’s two largest Jewish communities (each with roughly 6 million Jews), the Jewish foodways of the United States and of Israel/ Palestine are themselves complex and reflect the influences and cultural traditions of Jews from nearly every place on earth.
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Innovations in Jewish Life Collections, “Intro to Jewish Food,” IJL Digital Exhibits, accessed May 3, 2024, https://embodiedjudaism.omeka.net/items/show/122.