Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin bilingual This larger new edition has

This larger new edition has been painstakingly assembled from those diaries and other documents and writings by Kruk that were widely scattered and only found since the 1961 edition

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Through gorgeous photo essays of nine celebrated shuks

and part love letter to the city

illustrated by David Polonsky

Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin bilingual This larger new edition hasListen to our podcast with author Ted Merwin here. Pastrami on Rye is the first full length history of the New York Jewish deli. For much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. As a social space it rivaledand in some ways surpassedthe synagogue as the primary gathering place for the Jewish community. In popular culture it has been the setting for classics like When Harry Met