Stock Images: What Cookbooks, Advertisements, and Chicken Soup Recipes Tell Us About Jewish America

Peddlers and Markets

These photographs all capture elements urban Jewish foodways: the kosher butcher, grocer, and poultry market where food was produced procured; a sketch of a yarmulke-wearing fruit peddler vending goods in the age before refrigeration, much like many other entrepreneurial immigrants; a snapshot of grocery distribution, exemplifying the mitzvah of tzedakah, or charity.

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