Great Latke-hamantash Debate

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvRuth Fredman Cernea

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Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food. What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been replicated on campuses nationwide. Highly absurd yet deeply serious, the annual debate is an opportunity for both ethnic celebration and academic farce. In poetry, essays, jokes, and revisionist histories, members of elite American academies attack the latke-versus-hamantash question with intellectual panache and an unerring sense of humor, if not chutzpah."The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate" is the first collection of the best of these performances, from Martha Nussbaum's paean to both foods - in the style of Hecuba's Lament - to Nobel laureate Leon Lederman's proclamation on the union of the celebrated dyad. The latke and the hamantash are here revealed as playing a critical role in everything from Chinese history to the Renaissance, the works of Jane Austen to constitutional law. Eminent philosopher and humorist Ted Cohen supplies a wry foreword, and anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea provides a larger context with her overview of the Jewish holidays, recipes, and a glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terms, making the book accessible even to the uninitiated. The University of Chicago may have split the atom in 1942, but it's still working on the equally significant issue of the latke versus the hamantash.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-11-01
Mått15 x 22 x 2 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
MedarbetareTed Cohen
ISBN9780226100234

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"Hegel had the insight to see the oppositeness of the latke and the hamantash.... The latke is the thesis, the hamantash is the antithesis, so he cunningly insisted that there must be a synthesis, and we can all relax." - Alan Bloom, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 1981 "Though David admired Bathsheba's torso He liked her hamantashen more so." - Ralph Marcus, Department of Hellenistic Culture, University of Chicago, 1953"