![]() ![]() I’ll Have What She’s Having is co-curated by Skirball curators Cate Thurston and Laura Mart along with Lara Rabinovitch, renowned writer, producer, and specialist in immigrant food cultures. It shows how people adapt and transform their own cultural traditions over time, resulting in a living style of cooking, eating, and sharing community that is at once deeply rooted in their own heritage and continuously changing.” “This exhibition reveals facets of the lives of Central and Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that echo in contemporary immigrant experiences. “Whether you grew up eating matzo ball soup or are learning about lox for the first time, this exhibition demonstrates how Jewish food became a cultural touchstone, familiar to Americans across ethnic backgrounds,” said co-curators Cate Thurston and Laura Mart. I hope visitors come away with a newfound appreciation for the Jewish deli, and, with it, the story of the United States.” ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli tells a deeply moving story about the American experience of immigration-how immigrants adapted their cuisine to create a new culture that both retained and transcended their own traditions. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical. “It’s our great pleasure to present an exhibition on a topic so near and dear to the hearts of New Yorkers of all backgrounds,” said Dr. I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli tells a deeply moving story about the American experience of immigration-how immigrants adapted their cuisine to create a new culture that both retained and transcended their own traditions © Karen Rubin/ Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical, herself waxing nostalgic. “It’s a story of tradition and change, adaptation and resilience,” said Lara Rabinovitch. Museums are a place for joyful learning.” And it is also about joy, more important than ever. “It shows how Jewish-American culture was created and maintained through generations. “Why make a museum show out of the Jewish deli – which is a specific and unusual topic? The ‘deli’ allowed us to explore themes of how people of different backgrounds relate to one another” in such a melting pot as New York, said Laura Mart, one of the curators. New York was a stopover but also a destination for millions and they brought with them their food culture, which, of necessity, was adapted. Some 2 million Jews came from Eastern and Central Europe to the United States between 18, when nativist anti-immigrant furor shut down immigration (there is a display showing some of the anti-immigrant propaganda). Laura Mart, co-curator of I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli, now at the New-York Historical Society, explains the transition from pushcart to delicatessen, along with the fortunes of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe © Karen Rubin/ You get to see iconic neon signs, menus, advertisements, and deli workers’ uniforms alongside film clips depicting delis in popular culture and video documentaries. ![]() The exhibition explores the food of immigrants the heyday of the deli in the interwar period delis in the New York Theater District stories of Holocaust survivors and war refugees who found community in delis the shifting and shrinking landscapes of delis across the country and delis in popular culture. On view through April 2, 2023, the mouth-watering and culturally significant exhibition, organized by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles (where it is on view through September 18), examines how Jewish immigrants, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, imported and adapted traditions to create a cuisine that became a cornerstone of popular culture with worldwide influence. New-York Historical Society’s exhibition “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli, is a fascinating exploration of the rich history of the Jewish immigrant experience that made the delicatessen so integral to New York and American culture. I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli exhibit at New-York Historical Society tells a deeply moving story about the American experience of immigration-how immigrants adapted their cuisine to create a new culture that both retained and transcended their own traditions © Karen Rubin/īy Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, ![]()
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