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You Are What They Ate: Russian Jews Reclaim Their Foodways
Author(s): Nakhimovsky, Alice S.
Date: 2006
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Food, Kashrut, Jewish Heritage, Russian-Speaking Jews
Abstract: The subject of this essay is the attempt of a new generation of Russian Jews to reestablish Jewish identity through the writing and publishing of Jewish cookbooks. After looking at ways in which Russian and Russian-Jewish foodways diverge, and then at ways in which Russian-Jewish cookbooks differ from representative post-Soviet ethnic cookbooks, the essay turns to the peculiarities of the books themselves. The books are very serious, and in a way impersonal: there is not a single reference to families or place or past life; there's not a single joke. Many refer in their introductions to loss and to the difficulty of rediscovery. All have great difficulty with kashruth.