Jewish Cookbooks

Our Cookbook page will be featuring cookbooks with recipes for foods from what is now the Czech and Slovak Republics and surrounding areas of Poland, Hungary, Russia, and the Ukraine.

Jewish Cookbooks

Title: The Women of Terezin, In Memories Kitchen
Author: Cara DeSilva
Publisher: Jason Aronson Incorporated
Date Published: July 1996
Format: Trade Cloth

An amazing compilation of recipes written from memories in the concentration camps of Terezin. This is "a cookbook from hell. But it is also a book of hope, for it shows in its own way how human beings can morally bear the worst treatment ever imagined"

Title: Eat! Eat!: Wonderful Recipes from the Old Country like My Mother Used to Make
Author: Ruth Kanin
Publisher: Donald I. Fine Books
Date Published: March 1995
Format: Trade Cloth

More than 125 recipes have been collected by the author from her mother and grandmother and presented in an easy-to-use format that takes advantage of modern cooking techniques yet retains the authenticity of these Central European/Jewish dishes. "Sensational."--Carl Reiner.

Title: The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkland to New York
Author: Claudia Roden
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Date Published: November 1996
Format: Trade Cloth

A monumental work--the story of the Jewish people told through the story of Jewish cooking--The Book of Jewish Food traces the development of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish communities and their cuisine over the centuries. The 800 magnificent recipes, many never before documented, represent treasures garnered bu Roden through nearly 15 years of traveling around the world. 50 photos & illustrations.

Title: The Jewish Cookbook: 70 Recipes Celebrating an Historic Cuisine
Author: Judy Jackson
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published: April 1997

Format: Trade Cloth

Title: In the Jewish Tradition: A Year of Festivities & Foods
Author: Judith B. Fellner