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A Conversation with Ted Merwin

A Conversation with Ted Merwin

After a 5 months hiatus due to voice issues and more, we will be back this evening at 11:00 pm (Eastern Time) The Kosher Scene Radio Show. Our guest will be Ted Merwin, who is Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he is the Founding Director of the Milton B. Ashell Center for Jewish Life. He writes about Jewish theater, dance, and food for…

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Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin

Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin

For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. Pastrami on Rye is a full-length history of the New York Jewish deli. The deli, argues Ted Merwin, reached its full flowering not in the immigrant period, as some might assume, but in the interwar era, when the children of Jewish immigrants celebrated the first flush of their…

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As I see it, there are two kinds of people in this world; people who love delis, and people you shouldn’t associate with.

Damon Runyon, quoted from Pastrami on Rye