Susan Weingarten - Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts

00:00 Opening
00:05 Announcements by Jamie Fraser, AIAR Director
00:05:35 Susan Weingarten
00:26:26 Yuval Shahar
00:36:42 Limor Yungman

AIAR Book Launch for Susan Weingarten’s new monograph, Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?

https://www.routledge.com/Ancient-Jewish-Food-in-Its-Geographical-and-Cultural-Contexts-Whats-Cooking-in-the-Talmuds/Weingarten/p/book/9781032009971

Abstract: Traditional rivalries between West and East, dating back at least as far as Herodotus, were expressed in the public rituals and symbolism of food and luxury at imperial banquets. Thus in Late Antiquity, banqueting was one of the arenas of rivalry between Roman Emperor and Sassanian King of Kings. Both in Palestine and in Babylonia, this rivalry is mirrored in the food cultures and conspicuous consumption of the Jewish community heads, the Palestinian Patriarch and his rival, the Babylonian Exilarch, as depicted in the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds respectively. In this presentation I shall look at how these rivalries are played out through the food on their tables.

Speaker Bio: Susan Weingarten is a food historian living in Jerusalem. She has published The Saint’s Saints: Hagiography and Geography in Jerome (2005); Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History (2019) and many papers on Jewish food in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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