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A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe
Contributor(s): Strom, Yale (Author), Schwartz, Elizabeth (With)
ISBN: 078797188X     ISBN-13: 9780787971885
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
OUR PRICE:   $32.40  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2004
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Annotation: A Wandering Feast is a delightful book that welcomes the reader to a wonderful journey through the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe. Page after page, you will visit the still-vibrant Jewish world and discover Yiddish folkways, toe-tapping klezmer music, and heart-warming traditional food. Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz have documented an amazing journey-organized around visits to authentic cities and villages in Eastern Europe-with a fascinating travelogue that includes inspiring stories, photographs, music, and recipes. A Wandering Feast reveals that a culture long feared to be gone forever is still very much alive.

"A Wandering Feast is rambunctious, festive, enlightening and . . . yes, tasty."
-Ilan Stavans, author, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

"Captures, preserves, contectualizes, and celebrates life."
-Annette Insdorf, author, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust

"A vehicle for an evocation and examination of his personal odyssey, and ultimately of Jewish history and identity."
-Eva Fogelman, author, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

"Strom proves himself a master storyteller and archivist of the lost Jewish worlds of post-Holocaust Europe."
-Thane Rosenbaum, the author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice
Dewey: 305.892
LCCN: 2004010051
Series: Arthur Kurzweil Books
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 7.04" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 241 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:
An original and uplifting view of a world lost, reborn, and rediscovered This is a delightful book that welcomes the reader to a wonderful journey through the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe: the still-vibrant villages and homes, the Yiddish folkways, the toe-tapping Klezmer music, and heart-warming traditional food. Yale Strom documented his journey--organized around fourteen specific visits to authentic villages in Eastern Europe--with a fascinating travelogue that includes inspiring stories, photographs, music that has never been printed, and recipes. He reveals that a culture long feared to be gone forever is still very much alive.