The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
Now in paperback: Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries."Balinska gives readers plenty to chew on. . . . Thoroughly entertaining."-Dara Horn, Wall Street Journal
Now in paperback: Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries."Balinska gives readers plenty to chew on. . . . Thoroughly entertaining."-Dara Horn, Wall Street Journal
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300112290 (0300112297)
Publish date: November 25th 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Despite some mispronunciations by the reader, this is an engaging history of the bagel, though it's really a history of the bagel, Jews in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and the Jews and labor unions in the US. Really, there isn't a lot to say about the bagel itself, but the bagel as an org...
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