The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Ruth Abusch-Magder

Ruth Abusch-Magder is working on a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history at Yale University. She has a B.A. from Barnard College and is coauthor of The Jewish Women’s Awareness Guide. She writes and speaks about cookbooks.

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"Textbook on How to Cook and Bake" by Hinde Amchanitzki, circa 1901

Cookbooks in the United States

American Jewish cookbooks capture the range of Jewish religious and cultural expression in the United States. Women took advantage of the versatility and variety of cookbooks to add their voices to the growing and developing Jewish culture in the United States.