Zvi Gitelman

Zvi Y. Gitelman

Marshall I. Goldman

Musya Glants

Provides up-to-date information and insights on the political, economic, and cultural situation of post-Soviet Jewry.

Jewish Life After the USSR

Joyce Toomre

This Collection of Original Essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. A wide array of sources - including chronicles, diaries, letters, police records, poems, novels, folklore, paintings, and cookbooks - help to interpret the moral and spiritual role of food in Russian culture. Stovelore in Russian folklife, fasting in Russian peasant culture, food as power in Dostoevsky's fiction, Tolstoy and vegetarianism, restaurants in early Soviet Russia, Soviet cookery and cookbooks, and food as art in Soviet paintings are among the topics discussed in this appealing volume.

Musya Glants

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