Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

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Knish In Search of the Jewish Soul Food ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ Laura Silver Brandeis University Press Waltham, Massachusetts ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ ‰ Silver_Knish_Book.indb 3 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Brandeis University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2014 Laura Silver All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed and typeset in Skolar and Thirsty Rough by Eric M. Brooks University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce the following: Five lines from “In the City of Slaughter” from Selected Poems by C. N. Bialik, translated by David Aberbach. Translation copyright © 2004 by David Aberbach. Published in 2004 by the Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., www.overlookpress.com. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Silver, Laura. Knish: in search of the Jewish soul food / Laura Silver. pages cm.—(HBI series on Jewish women) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978–1–61168–312–7 (cloth : alk. paper)— isbn 978–1–61168–545–9 (ebook) 1. Jewish cooking—History. 2. Jews—Food—History. I. Title. tx724.s539 2014 641.5'676—dc23  2013040545 5 4 3 2 1 Silver_Knish_Book.indb 4 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM To my parents Barbara & Michael Silver with love Silver_Knish_Book.indb 5 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Silver_Knish_Book.indb 6 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, And the blind man’s blindness when he’s gone away, And a thread of foam—a sign of the sea— And a bit of cloud snarled in a tree. ‰ “Ver Vet Blaybn?” from Poems from a Diary (1974), by Abraham Sutzkever Courtesy of Rina Sutzkever Kalderon The receding world of our ancestors continues to shine because we are all from there. ‰ Knyszyn town historian Henryk Stasiewicz Who doesn’t love a knish? ‰ Joan Rivers Silver_Knish_Book.indb 7 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM Silver_Knish_Book.indb 8 1/31/2014 11:51:27 AM ...