A Taste of the Old World: Jewish Food and Memory

Location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NYC

Co-presented with the Museum of the City of New York.

Presented in connection with Letters to Afar, an immersive video art installation co-presented by YIVO and the Museum of the City of New York (October 22, 2014-March 31, 2015).

Katz's. Russ & Daughters. Zabar's. Yonah Schimmel's. Barney Greengrass. Mile End Delicatessen. These are names, both old and new, that define a distinctly New York brand of comfort food. Join a panel of leading food writers, purveyors and restaurant owners for a panel discussion about the powerful connection between Jewish food and East European Jewish memory, and why "at this moment in 21st-century New York, the cutting edge of cuisine is the beet-heavy, cabbage-friendly, herring-loving diet of 19th-century Jews in Eastern Europe" (Julia Moskin, New York Times).

About the Participants

Noah Bernamoff is a chef and the Founder, Creative Director and Managing Partner of Mile End Delicatessen.

Mark Russ Federman is the author of Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House that Herring Built (Schocken).

Eve Jochnowitz is a culinary ethnographer, chef, baker, and Yiddish instructor at the YIVO Institute.

Julia Moskin (moderator) is a reporter for The New York Times Dining Section.

Laura Silver is the author of Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food (Brandeis University Press).