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SUMMARY:YINR - Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Nora Rubel via Zo
 om
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at the Young Is
 rael 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 speak
 er of the 2023-2024 season in the monthly scholarly programming offered by
  WIJS at YINR.\n\nDr. Rubel’s lecture is entitled: “A ‘Jewish’ Jo
 y 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: Th
 e Settlement Cook Book\, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-ko
 sher 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. Evidenc
 e suggests that the early devotees of the Settlement Cook Book were over
 whelmingly Jewish\, and that the heirloom quality of this book transcended
  generations leading to the perception of the book as a Jewish\, albeit no
 t Judaic\, standard.  Drawing on close readings of recipes\, nostalgic re
 ferences in memoirs and fiction\, as well as secondary sources that catalo
 g 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 J
 ews or Judaism.\n\nNora Rubel is the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jew
 ish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the Un
 iversity of Rochester. Rubel teaches and writes on a wide variety of topic
 s related to gender\, race and ethnicity in American religion\, particular
 ly in relation to food and popular culture. She is the author of Doubting
  the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Colum
 bia University Press 2009)\, co-editor of Religion\, Food and Eating in N
 orth 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 Settle
 ment 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 Zoo
 m information\, please call 914-636-2215 or email: wijs@yinr.org.  Indiv
 iduals on the WIJS mailing list will automatically receive the Zoom inform
 ation.
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