In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin Hardcover - 1996
by Cara De Silva (Editor); Bianca Steiner Brown (Translator); Contribution by Michael Berenbaum
The heart of this book is a compilation of remembered recipes written down by malnourished women in Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The women of Terezin recorded their recipes as a way to maintain their humanity and bring them comfort in the face of almost certain death. In stark contrast to the meager food they were eating in the camp, the recipes in these pages record the rich and robust tradition of Czech Jewish life.
From the rear cover
The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The page are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Terezin (also known as Theresienstadt), the recipes give instructions for making beloved dishes in the rich, robust Czech tradition. Sometimes steps or ingredients are missing, the gaps a painful illustration of the condition and situation in which the authors lived. Reprinting the contents of the original hand-sewn copybook, In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin is a beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their heritage and a part of themselves. Despite the harsh conditions in the Nazis' "model" ghetto - which in reality was a way station to Auschwitz and other death camps - cultural, intellectual, and artistic life did exist within the walls of the ghetto. Like the heart-breaking book ... I never saw another butterfly ... which contains the poetry and drawings of the children of Terezin, the handwritten cookbook is proof that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people.
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- Title In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
- Author Cara De Silva (Editor); Bianca Steiner Brown (Translator); Contribution by Michael Berenbaum
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Later printing
- Pages 110
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jason Aronson, Northvale, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
- ISBN 9781568219028 / 1568219024
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.85 x 0.83 in (21.72 x 14.86 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish cookery
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96013675
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/1996, Page 80
- New York Times, 11/17/1996, Page 7
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1996, Page 88
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