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SUMMARY:YINR - Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Nora Rubel via
 Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at the Young
 Israel of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Nora Rubel on Tuesday\, May
 7\, 2024 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Rubel will be the eighth and final
 speaker of the 2023-2024 season in the monthly scholarly programming
 offered by WIJS at YINR.\n\nDr. Rubel’s lecture is entitled: “A
 ‘Jewish’ Joy of Cooking? How a Twentieth-Century Cookbook Containing
 Frog’s Legs\, Snails\, and Ham Became a Beloved Jewish Icon.”\n\nThis
 lecture examines the ways that the 20th-century cookbook\, The Way to a
 Man’s Heart: The Settlement Cook Book\, became a beloved Jewish icon.
 Filled with non-kosher recipes\, the cookbook has been called
 “unabashedly Jewish” and “a Jewish Joy of Cooking” by generations
 of reviewers and cooks\, yet dismissed as Jewish “by association only”
 by some historians. Evidence suggests that the early devotees of
 the Settlement Cook Book were overwhelmingly Jewish\, and that the
 heirloom quality of this book transcended generations leading to the
 perception of the book as a Jewish\, albeit not Judaic\, standard. 
 Drawing on close readings of recipes\, nostalgic references in memoirs and
 fiction\, as well as secondary sources that catalog the cookbook as
 “Jewish\,” Dr. Rubel will analyze the ways in which a cookbook can be
 coded as such\, despite having no direct references to Jews or
 Judaism.\n\nNora Rubel is the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish
 Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the
 University of Rochester. Rubel teaches and writes on a wide variety of
 topics related to gender\, race and ethnicity in American religion\,
 particularly in relation to food and popular culture. She is the author
 of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American
 Imagination (Columbia University Press 2009)\, co-editor of Religion\,
 Food and Eating in North America (CUP 2014) and the forthcoming Blessings
 Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family. She is
 currently completing a monograph entitled Recipes for the Melting Pot: The
 Lives of The Settlement Cook Book.\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to
 women and men.  Please visit www.yinr.org/wijs.html to view the complete
 WIJS 2023-24 schedule.  For more information\, to be added to the WIJS
 email list\, or for Zoom information\, please call 914-636-2215 or
 email: wijs@yinr.org.  Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will
 automatically receive the Zoom information.
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