Cover -- Jews and their Foodways Studies in Contemporary Jewry an Annual XXVIII 2015 -- Copyright -- Preface -- Notes -- Contents -- Symposium: Jews and Their Foodways -- Introduction -- Salo on Challah: Soviet Jews' Experience of Food in the 1920s-1950s -- Method and Basic Data Collection -- Notes from the "Food File" -- To be a Jew is to Tolerate Someone Even if They Eat Kosher Food: The Russian Revolution and Kashrut -- Salo, Ham, Pork Chops: A Little More on "Kosher" Pork -- Soviet Jewish Foods and Practices -- Foods during the War -- Jewish Foods in Early Postwar Soviet Union -- Conclusions -- In the Wake of Starvation: Jewish Displaced Persons and Food in Post-Holocaust Germany -- Impact of the Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Starvation -- Problems of Food Supply, Preparation, and Cooking -- Coping Strategies -- Food and Special Needs -- Jewish Celebrations in the DP Camps -- Conclusion -- "The New Immigrant Must Not Only Learn, He Must Also Forget": The Making of Eretz Israeli Ashkenazi Cuisine -- The Jewish Cuisine of Eastern Europe -- Migration and Modification of the European Ashkenazi Cuisine -- Components of the Eretz Israeli Ashkenazi Cuisine -- From Healthy Subjects to Desireful Consumers -- Craving Meat during Israel's Austerity Period, 1947-1953 -- Why Do Humans Consume Meat? -- Meat Consumption during the War of Independence -- Postwar Meat Allocation and Its Nutritional Consequences -- Must Everything Be Kosher? -- Meat Consumption and National Identity -- Conclusion -- Longing for the Aromas of Baghdad: Food, Emigration, and Transformation in the Lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel in the 1950s -- Food, Cookery, and the Status of Women in the Iraqi Jewish Family -- Ingredients and Preparation -- From Citizens to Refugees -- Food and the New Immigrants -- Life during the Period of Austerity -- Transformations during the First Decade.

Conclusion -- Cutting into the Flesh of the Community: Ritual Slaughter, Meat Consumption, and the Transition from Ethiopia to Israel -- Eating Customs and Meat Consumption in Ethiopia -- From Ethiopia to Israel -- Ethiopian Animal Slaughter in Israel: Challenging the Rabbinate -- Between Young People and Their Parents: Cutting into the Flesh of the Family -- Meat and Intra-Community Divisions: Cutting into the Flesh of the Community -- The Social and Cosmological Facets of Sacrifice -- Concluding Remarks -- Two Narratives of Israeli Food: "Jewish" versus "Ethnic -- Ethnicity, Jews and Food -- The Ashkenazi Narrative: The Social Construction of Nostalgia -- The Mizrahi Narrative: Continuity and Novelty -- Conclusion -- Size Matters: Israeli Chefs Cooking Up a Nation -- Researching Israeli Cuisine -- Size Matters -- Enlarging Foreign Dishes -- Culinary Expertise and Fine Food -- What Does It Mean to Be "Full" in Israel? -- Conclusion -- A Tapestry of Tastes: Jewish Women of Syrian Descent and Their Cooking in Mexico and Israel -- Syrian Jews in Mexico and Israel -- Method and Sources -- Mexican Diet, Israeli Diet, Syrian and Mizrahi Cuisines -- Patterns of Cooking -- Social Status, Religious and Ethnic Identities -- Bagel and Falafel: Two Iconic Jewish Foods and One Modern Jewish Identity -- Bagels, Lox and Cream Cheese -- Falafel, Pita and Salad -- Different Messages and Meanings of Bagels and Falafel -- Bagel and Falafel as Iconic Foods -- Conclusion -- The Contemporary Jewish Food Movement in North America: A Report from the Field(s) -- New Jews/A New Diaspora -- A New Judaism -- Notes -- Jews and Fat: Thoughts toward a History of an Image in the Second Age of Biology -- The Pathology of Obesity -- A Look at the Historiography -- Obesity and the Genetics of the Jews Today -- Notes -- Paradoxes of Jews and Their Foods.

Food, Remembering, and Forgetting -- Some Interesting Parallels -- The Narrative of Loss and Reconstruction -- A More Precise Language -- Advancing the Analysis of Jewish Food -- Reaching for Some Conclusions -- Notes -- Review Essays -- Exploring the Universe of Camps and Ghettos: Classifications and Interpretations of the Nazi Topography of Terror -- Notes -- The Literary Character of the Haskalah -- Notes -- Book Reviews -- Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide -- Evan Burr Bukey, Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 216 pp. -- Geoffrey P. Megargee (ed.), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, vol. 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business and Administration Main Office (WVHA). Bloomington: Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009. 1,796 pp. -- Dan Michman, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust, trans. Lenn J. Schramm. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 191 pp. -- Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani (eds.), The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust, 2 vols. + DVD. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009. 1,166 pp. -- Biography, History, and the Social Sciences -- Pierre Birnbaum, La République et le cochon. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2013. 193 pp. -- Yossi Goldstein, Golda: biografiyah. Beersheba: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2012. 649 pp. -- Note -- Sebastian Hoepfner, Jewish Organizations in Transatlantic Perspective: Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Politics in Germany and the United States. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. xv + 364 pp. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012. 439 pp. -- Notes.

Guy Miron, The Waning of Emancipation: Jewish History, Memory and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France and Hungary. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. x + 308 pp. -- Stephen Sharot, Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. xi + 317 pp. -- Azriel Shohet, The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941, ed. Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman -- trans. Faigie Tropper and Moshe Rosman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xxxiv + 754 pp. -- Notes -- Gerald Sorin, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xi + 512 pp. -- Note -- Scott Ury, Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. xxii + 415 pp. -- Kalman Weiser, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. xxi + 389 pp. -- Note -- Religion, Thought, and Culture -- Nathan Abrams, The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. x + 258 pp. -- Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Mysticism in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010. 441 pp. -- Aliza Cohen-Mushlin et al., Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, 2 vols. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010-2012 -- vol. 1 (A-M), 336 pp -- vol. 2 (N-Z), 471 pp. -- Note -- David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis, Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. x + 206 pp. -- Sharman Kadish, The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xiv + 398 pp. -- 248 ills.

Olga Litvak, Haskalah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. xvii + 226 pp. -- Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East -- Yoel Cohen, God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel's Media. London: Routledge, 2012. xiv + 258 pp. -- Notes -- Beverly Mizrachi, Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. x + 203 pp. -- Note -- Anita Shapira, Israel: A History. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012. xiii + 502 pp. -- Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. New York: Spiegel & -- Grau, 2013. xiv + 445 pp. -- Note -- Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIX: Edited by Gabriel Finder and Eli Leaderhendler -- Note on Editorial Policy.