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2 years ago in Cultural History , Visual Culture Studies By Raghav V
Are there studies on Jewish cuisine and war in the 20th century?
My dissertation examines cultural resilience. I'm moving beyond obvious political or military history. I'm curious if there are specific scholarly works that analyze how Jewish cuisine recipes, food rituals, scarcity cooking was consciously or unconsciously used as a means of identity preservation, community cohesion, or even covert resistance during wars like WWII or the Israeli War of Independence.
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By Angel Answered 4 months ago
Yes, this is a growing and poignant sub-field. I've reviewed scholarship that treats wartime cookbooks compiled in ghettos or camps not as mere recipes, but as archives of memory and acts of psychological resistance. Studies also examine how diasporic Jewish communities in the U.S. used food packaging (like matzah) for Zionist fundraising during WWII, or how scarcity in post-war Europe led to culinary innovation that later became national dishes in Israel. The work of scholars like Hasia Diner or Joie Bauer would be an excellent starting point for your framework on edible resilience.
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