Stock Images: What Cookbooks, Advertisements, and Chicken Soup Recipes Tell Us About Jewish AmericaMain MenuGolden Broth, Golden LandAn introduction to Stock ImagesThe Ashkenazi TableFood, immigration, and identity formation for new Jewish-AmericansMother Knows BestWomen's role in two spheres: "Kitchen Judaism"Campbell's and ClassCommercial interests and middle-class identityJewish AmericanaConcluding Stock Images
"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."These lines - interpreted over and over - evoke the promise of new life and opportunity in the United States for Ashkenazi immigrants.
1media/Emma Lazarus_thumb.jpeg2022-03-29T07:52:20-07:00Ilana Weisman717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4Sonnet3Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus wrote this iconic piece, The New Colossus, in 1883 as a fundraising campaign to build the Statue of Liberty. The poem draws inspiration from families like her own: Jewish, refugees, working-class, all with hope of a better life in America.media/Emma Lazarus.jpegplain2023-04-08T08:34:07-07:00Ilana Weisman717fe68fa7aefa0919f4193faeb67002faa8e0a4