Hasia Diner
By Hasia Diner
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Food Caught Between Gefilte Fish and Campbell’s Soup
Photograph by Edsel Little; Flickr When I first gravitated toward writing about food and immigration to the United States as an ostensibly serious academic, colleagues asked me — and, frankly, I asked myself — the obvious question. Why food? Food perhaps lacked the gravitas and significance of subjects like political, labor or immigration history. Academics…
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Opinion Summer Camp With Leonard Fein Changed Me Forever
Leonard Fein The Jewish media has been awash with words of admiration for Leonard Fein, who died August 14. They come from those who mourn the passing of a person who embodies his name, a lion who roars. Their tributes rightly reflect upon his fire for social justice, his eloquence and his willingness to put…
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