There are nearly 40,000 Jews in Mexico, with cultural expression and culinary styles all their own.
Meet Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle and learn more about Mexican Jewry through their new cookbook, Sabor Judio: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook. Dr. Dalia Wassner, Director of the Brandeis Initiative on Jews of the Americas, will join the conversation to help place Mexican Jewry within the larger narrative of the Jewish communities of Latin and South America. Stay after to shmooze and snack.
From the publisher: “A sumptuous, memorable showcase of 100 original recipes representing the fusion of traditional Mexican and Jewish cuisines, offers a tour through the culture of Mexican Jews from the colonial period to the present. This extraordinary volume gathers dishes and stories that have been central to the endurance of family traditions across centuries. The book is organized through meals (desayuno, almuerzo, cena, sobremesa) and includes menus for Jewish holidays. You will find invaluable treasures like brisket tortas, latkes with mole, cumin-Rose Kibbe and Paleta Manischewitz that attest to the marriage of these two beloved culinary traditions.”
Cookbooks will be available for sale, through our partners at Trident Booksellers.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Book Council and the Brandeis Initiative on Jews of the Americas.
Ilan Stavans has taught courses on a wide array of topics such as Spanglish, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare in prison, modern American poetry, Latin music, Don Quixote, Gabriel García Márquez, Modernismo, popular culture in Hispanic America, world Jewish writers, the cultural history of the Spanish language, Pablo Neruda, the history of the Spanish language, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Yiddish literature, Jewish-Hispanic relations, cinema, Latin American art, and U.S.-Latino culture.
Margaret E. Boyle's teaching and research spans the languages, literature and cultures of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (with Sarah Owens, University of Toronto Press, 2021). Her primary interests include Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures.
Dalia Wassner, PhD, is the director of Jews of the Americas, an initiative of Brandeis University at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. Dr. Wassner is a historian whose research and teaching is dedicated to providing more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to the Jewish Diaspora and broadening the academic fields of Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies and Diaspora Studies.
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