Schnorrer (1897); Falafel, Chumus, Peeta (1949)

[Barry Popik]

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JEWISH RESOURCES ONLINE
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The following seems to be a nice list of the Jewish archives that are
now online:
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http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/jewish/links.html#newspapers
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I hadn't been aware of THE AMERICAN JEWESS (1895-1899), but I didn't
find much in it. I was looking for a few food items, such as "latkes."
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http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=amjewess;cc=amjewess;q1=bread;rgn=full%20text;view=image;seq=00000034;idno=taj1895.0004.004;node=taj1895.0004.004%3A16
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January 1897, The American Jewess, "The Russian Jews," pg. 168:
The Russian Jewish _Schnorrer_ is upheld as a sample,...
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http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/books/pages.cgi?layout=vol0/part0/copy0&call=CRI_1949_115_008_12161949&file=0030
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16 December 1949, The Jewish Criterion, "A Guide for Tourists," pg. 30, col. 2:
The mysteries of Arab cuisine beckon the visitor in Jaffa, Nazareth
and Tiberias--"falafel," most nearly described as an "everything but
the kitchen sink plus red pepper" sandwich; the bland succulence of
"tehina" and "chumus," eaten with hunks of the platter-shaped bread,
"peeta"; the juicy kebab and shashlik.

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