Dear Safranim, You are cordially invited to a free public lecture:
Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals with Dr. Eve Jochnowitz Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:30 p.m. Mid-Manhattan Library (40th St. and Fifth Avenue, New York, NY) Fully accessible to wheelchairs First come, first served Generously sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division The Sabbath meals and their songs are repeatedly cited as being among the chief pleasures and obligations of the Sabbath, codified with the Talmudic injunction that on the Sabbath Jews should eat, drink, discuss Torah, and sing songs. Two traditions connect the Sabbath Zmires with Sabbath foods: the belief that the songs alone are nourishment, and the mystical tradition that food is itself a form of worship. This presentation examines some of the surprising cultural phenomena of the genre of zmires within and outside their traditional setting. Eve Jochnowitz has been teaching Yiddish Language, Culture, and Literature, as well as Yiddish Foodways and Dance for twenty years. She worked for several years as a cook and baker and received her Ph.D. on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography in the department of Performance Studies from New York University. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual as well as food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. She blogs in English and Yiddish at inmolaraan.blogspot.com and is the co-host with Rukhl Schaechter Ejdelman, of Est Gezunterheyt! a cooking show in Yiddish. The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook, translated, annotated, and adapted for the modern kitchen, was published this year. Dr. Jochnowitz is the chocolate lady. For more information, please visit: http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/03/31/seasoned-song-sacred-music-ashkenazic-sabbath-meals-dr-eve-jochnowitz Sincerely, Amanda -- Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel Librarian Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111 The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Reference Desk: 212-930-0601 Fax: 212-642-0141 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/jewish-division Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/schwarzmanbuilding __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
