Food and Cultural Change

Publication Date: February 2003

Publisher: National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)

Author(s): Hasia Diner

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Culture; Migration; History; Assimilation

Type: Brief

Abstract:

The author explores, from a historian's perspective, the way migration has affected Jewish food and culture. She speculates about the course which Jewish culture might take in decades to come, concluding that forms of social organization and culture change continuously.