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Source Saturdays: "A Treasure for my Daughter" (1950) with Dr. Andrea Eidinger

Meaningful Learning with Dr. Samantha Cutrara

English - September 19, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.8 MB
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Dr. Andrea Eidinger talks about "A Treasure for my Daughter" cook book from 1950 and how it helps us understand the ways a Jewish Canadian identity was crafted through food and tradition in the era of post-WW2 domesticity. 


Through this discussion, we are able to model how historians read primary sources to expand their analysis of the past. 


Check out "A Treasure for my Daughter" here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12p4Z-jKhZ-DRzlM6ogtvdk0nkSefe6su/view?usp=sharing  


Also check out: https://www.unwrittenhistories.com/gender-roles-not-jell-o-rolls-deconstructing-radio-ads-and-canadian-domesticity/  


Follow Dr. Eidinger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreaEidinger 


Follow Dr. Cutrara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSCutrara


Bio: Andrea Eidinger is a historian of gender and ethnicity currently living and working in Montreal. Her research concentrates on the lived experiences of ordinary Jewish women living in Montreal between 1945 and 1980. Her work has previously been published in Histoire Sociale/Social History and in the edited collection, Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History. Her article in the latter collection, entitled “Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal” was awarded the 2013 honourable mention for the English-Language Hilda Neatby Prize for the best article in Canadian women’s and gender history. She was also the 2019 winner of the Marion Dewar Prize for her contributions to the field of the history of women in Canada. She is currently revising her manuscript, Becoming Ourselves: Jewish Women in Montreal, 1945-1980, which is under contract at UBC Press.  


Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/


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