{"title":"Books by Andras Koerner","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"traditional-hungarian-jewish-dishes","title":"Traditional Hungarian Jewish Dishes","description":"The book provides a comprehensive and scholarly overview of traditional Hungarian Jewish dishes. It includes brief histories of 135 dishes, translations of their historic recipes, quotations from contemporaneous descriptions of them, and for about half of them, also versions adapted to the requirements of the modern kitchen.   In addition to investigating many other issues relevant to the subject, the book’s introduction makes a case for cookbooks as historical documents, describes the pioneering role of Hungary in the history of Jewish cookbooks, places them in the context of Hungarian Jewish history, tells the reasons why the book focuses on the period before 1945, and explores the differences between Jewish and non-Jewish cuisine in Hungary.   The book is illustrated by a large number of historical photos depicting Hungary’s Jewish culinary culture before World War II.   This is the first work to present the dishes of a nation’s Jewish cuisine mainly through quotes from primary sources, such as recipes in historic cookbooks and contemporary opinions about the role the dishes played in people’s lives. Previously, these sources have not been available in English.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57573202329973,"sku":"9781800508606","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"moritz-gottlieb-saphir","title":"Moritz Gottlieb Saphir – Nineteenth–Century Pioneer of Journalism and Food Writing","description":"The writer and journalist Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (1795–1858) was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in a Hungarian village and studied in a yeshiva but spent his professional life in the cities of Germany and Austria. He was one of the most popular authors and cultural figures in Central and Western Europe in the 19th century, which can be also seen from the fact that Alexandre Dumas, Sr. published a collection of his writings in French complete with a long essay expressing his admiration for Saphir. Together with his friends Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne, Saphir was the first Jewish author to achieve international fame. Like them, he converted to the Lutheran faith, but he never denied his Jewish origins and wrote appreciatively of Jewish food traditions.   His literary and journalistic innovations included publishing the first modern newspapers in Berlin, Munich and Vienna, developing a new style of humorous writing, introducing the journalistic genre of the feuilleton to Austria, authoring the first extended prose poem in the German language and writing the first study of vernacular Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, as well as the first review of a Jewish cookbook and restaurant. Although due to censorship he had to largely eschew political subjects, he courageously fought for press freedom and against anti-Jewish prejudice. Although perhaps not a great writer, he was an important and intriguing figure of European cultural history who certainly doesn’t deserve the neglect his work has suffered since the early 20th century.   András Koerner’s book is the first modern monograph of him, which in addition to a detailed presentation of his eventful, interesting life and an examination of his personality, identity and work also includes the first-ever extensive annotated anthology of him in English.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680174743925,"sku":"9789633868799","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-story-of-gefilte-fish","title":"The Story of Gefilte Fish","description":"This is the first work on the history and cultural significance of gefilte fish, one of the most iconic Ashkenazi Jewish specialties. It was primarily its role in the meals for the Sabbath that has made gefilte fish an important part of Jewish traditions in Eastern Europe. By now, however, it is most frequently served for Passover in the United States. As commercially produced jarred gefilte fish gradually replaced the homemade kind in America, the dish has become something many Jews love to hate. The book examines the rise, fall, and afterlife of this iconic dish, and how gefilte fish, even while detested, could remain so integral to Jewish memory and how it came to be identified with Eastern European Jewish heritage.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695214895477,"sku":"9789633869413","price":111.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-andras-koerner.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}