Golden Broth, Golden Land
Stock Images: What Cookbooks, Advertisements, and Chicken Soup Recipes Tell Us about Jewish America is digital book featuring scholarly essays, creative non-fiction pieces, and annotated exhibits of archival materials. This project incorporates themes of gender, class, race, and religion, drawing on literature in history, commerce, Jewish studies, marketing, anthropology, psychology, and gender studies. By using chicken soup as framing device and primary object of study, Stock Images tells the story of the Ashkenazi Jewish-American community's parallel assimilation into the United States and distinction as an ethnocultural group.
Navigating Stock Images:
- Follow the rust-colored boxes - that's the linear narrative path and what makes it easiest to get from section to section.
- Use the top left corner menu to navigate around different pages: click the text for pages and the arrows for sub-pages.
- Click media files or hover over full-screen images to see gray annotation boxes featuring notes and prompts - like what you'd point out in a gallery or lesson!
- Use the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner to search for key terms.
- Look for highlighted text links - they may contain notes or lead to other pages and documents.