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2022 September/October, Arts & Culture, Book Review

Book Review | Secrets of a Musical Family

  • September 28, 2022
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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Mary Rodgers’s posthumous autobiography is a brash, outrageous and entertaining excursion into the life of its author.

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Picture of the book "Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes"
Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2022

Book Review | The Temple of Whitefish and Lox

  • August 25, 2022
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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Lori Zabar’s new book reveals the family history behind the iconic grocery store.

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2016 May-June, Jewish World

Book Review // Rhapsody in Schmaltz

  • May 8, 2017
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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Rhapsody in Schmaltz is not a book to devour in one sitting, nor should it be casually nibbled. Something of an oxymoron, this witty, entertaining volume overflows with food for thought and thoughts about food. It is stuffed with Talmudic arguments, biblical injunctions, slyly sexual linguistic tropes, and

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2014 November/December, Arts & Culture, Jewish World

Book Review // Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

  • May 30, 2017
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food Laura Silver Brandeis University Press 2014, pp. 275, $24.95 by Gloria Levitas Reader alert: I am not now nor have I ever been a knish...

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2013 November-December, Arts & Culture

Book Review: The Book of Schmaltz by Michael Ruhlman

  • June 1, 2017
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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Think you know what to eat to stay healthy? That fats are bad for you? That you will never again be able to enjoy the umami taste of schmaltz on a piece of matzoh? Or the crunch of gribenes (chicken-skin cracklings) that brings back the joys of your grandmother’s kitchen?

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2013 January-February, Arts & Culture, Jewish World

Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

  • May 30, 2017
  • By author-avatar Gloria Levitas
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How to Be Black and Jewish Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press 2013,  $29.95, pp. 232 Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search for the Lost Ark, was a...

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