The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate Tapa dura - 2005
de 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.
Descripción de contraportada
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.
Detalles
- Título The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate
- Autor Ruth Fredman Cernea (Editor); Foreword by Ted Cohen
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 250
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2005-11-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226100234 / 0226100235
- Peso 1.01 libras (0.46 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.68 x 6.3 x 0.97 pulgadas (22.05 x 16.00 x 2.46 cm)
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Temas
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jews, Jewish cookery
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2005015165
- Dewey Decimal Code 641.567
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 89
- Library Journal, 11/14/2005, Page 0
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