The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate Hardcover - 2005
by Ruth Fredman Cernea (Editor); Foreword by Ted Cohen
Presenting a collection of the funniest, most thought-provoking writing produced for the University of Chicago's annual academic farce where Nobel laureates debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is the worthier food.
From the rear cover
Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every
November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world come together to consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food.
What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been replicated on campuses nationwide. Highly absurd yet deeply serious, the annual debate is an
opportunity for both ethnic celebration and academic farce. In poetry, essays, jokes, and
revisionist histories, members of elite American academies attack the latke-versus-hamantash question with intellectual panache and an unerring sense of humor, if not chutzpah. The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate is the first collection of the best of these performances, from Martha Nussbaum's paean to both foods--in the style of Hecuba's Lament--to Nobel laureate Leon Lederman's proclamation on the union of the celebrated dyad. The latke and the hamantash are here revealed as playing a critical role in everything from Chinese history to the Renaissance, the works of Jane Austen to constitutional law.
Eminent philosopher and humorist Ted Cohen supplies a wry foreword, while anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea provides a historical and social context as well as an overview of the Jewish holidays, recipes, and a glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terms, making the book accessible even to the uninitiated. The University of Chicago may have split the atom in 1942, but it's still working on the equally significant issue of the latke versus the hamantash.
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- Title The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate
- Author Ruth Fredman Cernea (Editor); Foreword by Ted Cohen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 250
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-11-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226100234 / 0226100235
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 6.3 x 0.97 in (22.05 x 16.00 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jews, Jewish cookery
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005015165
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.567
Media reviews
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 89
- Library Journal, 11/14/2005, Page 0
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