About

Lara Rabinovitch explores food, ethnicity, and Jewish history and culture in a variety of academic and popular outlets. She is writing her PhD dissertation at New York University on early 20th century Romanian Jewish immigrants and their foodways in New York City and Montreal. She also teaches modern Jewish, American, and European history at NYU. She is co-editor of Choosing Yiddish (Wayne State University Press, 2010), 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 2008. Her publications appear in Gastronomica, 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 currently lives in New York City.

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