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Great Latke-Hamantash Debate

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ISBN-10: 0226100235

ISBN-13: 9780226100234

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ruth Fredman Cernea, Ted Cohen

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Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food. What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been replicated on campuses nationwide. Highly absurd yet deeply serious, the annual debate is an opportunity…    
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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/22/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Size: 0.58" wide x 0.88" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

Ted Cohen (1939-2014) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1967 until his death. He was the auhor of�Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters and Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor and co-editor of Essays in Kant's Aesthetics and Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
IntroductionFood for Academic and Gastric Digestion
Metahamantashen; or, Shooting Off the Can(n)onFreedom, Latkes, and American Letters: An Original Contribution to Knowledge
Restoring the Jewish Canon
Consolations of the Latke
The Hamantash in Shakespeare
Jane Austen’s Love and Latkes
The Latke’s Role in the Renaissance Hanna
The Approach through Bibliography
L’�ternel retour: The Dichotomy of Latke-Hamantash in Old and New French
The Apotheosis of the Latke: A Philosophical Analysis
Noshesle="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"David Malament
POTatoes, Rockin’ Latkes, and Another
The Latke vs. the Hamantash in an Age of (M)oral Crisis
Influences of Latkes, Hamantashen, and Jewish Cooking in General on the Roots of Rock 'n’ Roll
The Fundamental Jewish Cuisine
NoshesSteven Watter
Accentuate the Positivists The Voyage on the Bagel: In Honor of the Darwin Centennial
The Latke and the Hamantash at the Fifty-Yard Line
Hamantash, Bagel, or Latke: Who Has the Power?
The Latke, the Hamantash, the Common Market, and Creativity
NoshesStephen Z. Cohen
Luminous, Luscious Latkes; Bewitching
Ode to the Latke Edward Stankiewicz The Ineffable Allure of Hamantashen Barbara Maria Stafford Bull's Homage to a Latke: An Acrostic Simon Hellerstein Noshes Ralph Marcus, Roger Weiss Round Five - Combine and Deconstruct All Ingredients Madeleine, Oh, Madeleine; or, Meditation on Short, Plump Pastries Fran�oise Meltzer The Hermeneutics of the Hamantash Emilie S. Passow Noshes Marianne H. Whatley, Hasia Diner Round Six - Semiotics and Anti-Semiotics Heartburn as a Cultural System Michael Silverstein Latke vs. Hamantash: A Feminist Critique Judith Shapiro Latke vs. Hamantash: A Materialist-Feminist Analysis; A Reply to Judith Shapiro Robin Leidner Latkes and Hamantashen as Dominant Symbols in Jewish Critical Thought Marvin Mirsky The Hamantash vs. the Latke: An Archetypal Study Eugene Goodheart Noshes Zalman Usiskin, Harry Harootunian, Howard Aronson, Bernard S. Cohn, Ralph W. Nicholas Round Seven - Shrouded in Mystery: Spinning Latkes and Neutrinos From Cain to Quincy: Jewish Foods as Weapons of Violence Robert Kirschner A New Page in the History of Atomic Physics Jerrold M. Sadock The Scientific Method and the Latke-Hamantash Issue Edward W. Kolb Paired Matter, Edible and Inedible Leon M. Lederman Noshes Josef Stern, Morrel H. Cohen, Isaac Abella Round Eight - Appealing to a Higher Authority The Rights and Wrongs of Latkes
The Bioethical Implicat