Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg Kraus

Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, a Professor of Religion at Wheaton College (MA), is the author of Gastronomic Judaism as Culinary Midrash (Lexington, 2018) and has published numerous articles on Jewish food and has translated Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher’s fourteenth-century Hebrew mystical manual on food, Shulhan Shel Arba (Table of Four) available on-line on Sefaria.

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Our Jewish Identities Are Situational

August 28, 2018

‘Jewish’ foods vary from place to place as Jews adopt the cuisines of their neighbors.

Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg Kraus

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Our Jewish Identities Are Situational

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