Lara Rabinovitch is a Joint PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Department of History at New York University. She is currently completing her dissertation entitled, “Feeding Identity: Romanian Jewish Immigrants in New York City and Montreal, 1900-1939,” which utilizes a transnational and comparative approach to both North American and east European Jewish history by tracing the first major wave of migration of Jews from Romania to the New World and their collective identification in two major cities of settlement for this group.
Her other work includes:
Choosing Yiddish: Studies on Yiddish Literature, Culture, and History (Wayne State University Press: 2011), Co-Editor
CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures / Revue des cultures culinaries au Canada (McGill University), Managing Editor, 2008-2009
Additional publications in Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (June 2009), the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (March 2008), the American Jewish Archives Journal (2007), Canadian Jewish Studies (2007), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Fall 2006), and Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (Winter/Spring 2006).
For the academic year 2009-2010, Lara Rabinovitch is a Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. For more on her publishing record, other fellowships, courses taught, or her Curriculum Vitae, please contact her at lara@lararabinovitch.com.
