A Wandering Feast: A Journey Through The Jewish Culture Of Eastern Europe

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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 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.

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