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SUMMARY:Recipes for the Melting Pot: Reading The Settlement Cook Book with Nora Rubel
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Gilman Lecture on Jewish Culture\n\nThis talk examines 
 the ways that the 20th century cookbook\, The Way to a Man’s Heart: The 
 Settlement Cook Book\, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-kosher 
 recipes\, the cookbook has been called “unabashedly Jewish” and “a 
 Jewish Joy of Cooking” by generations of reviewers and cooks\, yet 
 dismissed as Jewish “by association only” by some historians. 
 Nevertheless\, the heirloom quality of this book transcended generations 
 leading to the perception of the book as a Jewish\, albeit not Judaic\, 
 standard. Rubel will analyze the ways in which a cookbook can be coded as 
 Jewish\, despite having no direct references to Jews or Judaism.\n\nNora 
 Rubel\, Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the University 
 of Rochester\, teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics related to 
 gender\, race\, and ethnicity in American religion\, particularly in 
 relation to food and popular culture. She is the author of Doubting the 
 Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Columbia 
 University Press 2009)\, co-editor of Religion\, Food and Eating in North 
 America (CUP 2014) and Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the 
 Queer Jewish Family (Rutgers University Press 2024). Her latest book\, 
 Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of The Settlement Cook Book is due 
 out from Columbia University Press in Spring of 2026.\n\nLeslie McRoberts\, 
 Head of MSU Libraries Special Collections and MSU Archives\, will offer a 
 pop-up of Settlement House and other cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' 
 Special Collections cookery collection.\n\nCo-sponsors: The Michael and 
 Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel\, College of 
 Arts and Letters\, James Madison College\, College of Social Science\, 
 Residential College of Arts and Humanities\, International Studies and 
 Programs\, Department of Religious Studies\, MSU Libraries\, and the 
 Department of History
LOCATION:Green Room (Main Library\, 4 West)
ORGANIZER;CN="Holly Flynn":MAILTO:flynnhol@msu.edu
CATEGORIES:Special Event
CONTACT;CN="Holly Flynn":MAILTO:flynnhol@msu.edu
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