Preface

1. Ways of Eating, Ways of Starving

2. Black Bread, Hard Bread: Food, Class, and Hunger in Italy

3. "The Bread Is Soft": Italian Foodways, American Abundance

4. "Outcast from Life's Feast": Food and Hunger in Ireland

5. The Sounds of Silence: Irish Food in America

6. A Set Table: Jewish Food and Class in Eastern Europe

7. Food Fights: Immigrant Jews and the Lure of America

8. Where There Is Bread, There Is My Country

Notes

Index

Author photo: Image Photographic Laboratory, 2001

Hasia R. Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University.