By David C. Kraemer
This e-book explores the historical past of Jewish consuming and Jewish identification, from the Bible to the current. the teachings of this ebook relaxation squarely at the much-quoted perception: 'you are what you eat.' yet this e-book is going past that easy truism to realize that you're not in basic terms what you consume, but in addition how, whilst, the place and with whom you consume. This publication starts off first and foremost – with the Torah – after which follows the background of Jewish consuming until eventually the fashionable age or even into our personal day. alongside the way in which, it travels from Jewish houses within the Holy Land and Babylonia (Iraq) to France and Spain and Italy, then to Germany and Poland and at last to the U.S. of the USA. It seems at major advancements in Jewish consuming in every age: within the old close to East and Persia, within the Classical age, through the heart a long time and into Modernity. It can pay cautious cognizance to Jewish consuming legislation (halakha) in at any time when and position, however it doesn't cease there: it additionally appears to be like for Jews who bend and holiday the legislations, who consume like Romans or Christians whatever the legislation and who boost their very own hybrid customs in response to their very own 'laws', no matter what Jewish culture may inform them. during this vibrant historical past of Jewish consuming, we get greater than a flavor of ways expressive and the most important consuming offerings have consistently been.
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