About

Lara Rabinovitch explores food, ethnicity, and history through a variety of academic and popular outlets. She recently completed her PhD in modern Jewish history from New York University (2012) and is currently working on a book, Pastrami and the City: Little Rumania and Early Twentieth Century New York. She has taught modern Jewish, American, and European history at NYU and for the 2011-2012 year she was the Quinn Fellow in its History Department. Her research helped launch the award-winning Facebook game, "America 2049," a human rights project produced by Breakthrough TV. She is co-editor of Choosing Yiddish (Wayne State University Press, December 2012), a book highlighting a young generation of scholars approaching Yiddish Studies through diverse interdisciplinary research. As Managing Editor, she helped launch McGill University’s CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures / Revue des cultures culinaries au Canada in 2007. Her publications have appeared in Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Prooftexts: Journal of Jewish Literary History, and Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, for which she also acted as Assistant Editor. In addition, she has written for Time Out New York, The Jewish Daily Forward, and Edible Toronto. Born in Strasbourg, France, and raised in Montreal and Toronto, Lara is based in New York City and Los Angeles.