A Seat at the Table:
A Journey into Jewish Food
sponsored by
Edward Blank and Family, The Covenant Foundation, and The Shine Trust
This course is open. Register at any time.
Take the class at any time, at your own pace.
Join us for an exploration into the heart of Jewish food, with an emphasis on the Ashkenazi table. This self-paced course features hundreds of never-before-seen archival objects, lectures by leading scholars, and video demonstrations of your favorite Jewish recipes by renowned chefs. Discover how the essence of Jewish food has remained constant even as the recipes have evolved and changed with the migration of Jews around the world.
Featuring: Joan Nathan, Michael Twitty, Alice Feiring, Mitchell Davis (James Beard Foundation), Niki Russ Federman & Josh Russ Tupper (Russ & Daughters), Jake Dell (Katz’s Deli), Darra Goldstein, Liz Alpern & Jeffrey Yoskowitz (The Gefilteria), Lior Lev Sercarz (La Boite), Adeena Sussman, Ilan Stavans, Leah Koenig, Michael Wex and more!
Read more about the course:
- JUF News, Hungering for Connection? (November 25, 2020)
- South Sound Magazine, Culinary Experts Share Insights Into Jewish Tradition (November 25, 2020)
- Hadassah Magazine, At YIVO Online, (Food) Class Is in Session (October 14, 2020)
- 101.9 Chai FM, Jewish Board Talk: A Seat at the Table (October 9, 2020)
- 425 Magazine, A Seat at the Table: Journey into Jewish Food (September 15, 2020)
- WBZ NewsRadio Connoisseurs Corner With Jordan Rich, A Seat at the Table (August 7, 2020)
- Jewish Boston, Enjoy Ashkenazi Jewish Cuisine, Virtually (August 7, 2020)
- Lilith, The Ashkenazi Table (Summer 2020)
- Jewish Boston, Enjoy Ashkenazi Jewish Cuisine, Virtually (August 3, 2020)
- Times of Israel, A Seat at the Table (July 28, 2020)
- Walnut Creek Magazine, Five Cool Things to Do this Week (July 28, 2020)
- The J, Ashkenaz Cuisine Explored In Archival Video Series (July 19, 2020)
- Jewish Journal, Virtual Jewish Food Course Offers ‘A Seat at the Table’ (July 13, 2020)
- Newsday, Take an online cooking course that explores the history of Jewish food (May 9, 2020)
- NBC, ‘A Seat at the Table’: Jewish Chefs, Writers Share Recipes, Stories, History of Ashkenazi Cooking (April 23, 2020)
- New York Times, Ashkenazi Foodways Explored in Online Course (April 20, 2020)
- eJewish Philanthropy, Reclaiming Food, Reclaiming History (February 5, 2020)
Share A Family Recipe
Food can carry deep emotional and historical resonance. Food holds and transmits a culture’s stories, traditions, memories, and wisdom. Share a piece of your family history by sharing a family recipe with YIVO. That recipe, and any stories you associate with it, will live on forever in the YIVO Archives.