'Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939'

Sara F., an 82-year-old Ukrainian in Brooklyn, seems the picture of an Old World Jewish grandmother. She worries about her grandson dating a gentile, she loves Yiddish songs, stories, and theater, and she measures world events with a single question: Is it good or bad for the Jews?

But then again, there's her recipe for kosher pork. The dietary laws don't matter to her, she told Anna Shternshis, a visiting scholar, because a Jewish soul is what makes food kosher.

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