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If smoked salmon and cream parmesan cheese bring only 1 thing in your thoughts, you can rely yourself among the list of world’s an incredible number of bagel mavens. But few people know about the bagel’s provenance, let alone its adventuresome history. This charming reserve tells the exceptional tale of the bagel’s trip from the furniture of seventeenth-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today, a tale of often unexpected connections between a cheap market-day treat and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history.
Research in international archives and numerous personal interviews uncover the bagel’s links with the defeat of the Turks by Polish King Jan Sobieski in 1683, the Yiddish ethnical revival of the late nineteenth century, and Jewish migration over the Atlantic to America. There the story moves from the bakeries of New York’s Lower East Area to the Bagel Bakers’ Local 388 Union of the 1960s, and the attentions of the mob. For all its humble size, the bagel has were able to bridge cultural spaces, save kings from obscurity, demand the feelings, and problem received wisdom. Maria Balinska weaves mutually a rich, quirky, and evocative history of East Western Jewry and the unassuming ring-shaped move the earth has taken to its heart and soul.
