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Great Latke-Hamantash Debate

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ISBN-10: 0226100243

ISBN-13: 9780226100241

Edition: 2006

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: $12.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
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
Introduction
Food for Academic and Gastric Digestion
Metahamantashen, or Shooting Off the Can(n)on
Freedom, 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
The Approach through Bibliography
L'eternel retour: The Dichotomy of Latke-Hamantash in Old and New French
The Apotheosis of the Latke: A Philosophical Analysis
Noshes
POTatoes, Rockin' Latkes, and Another Essence-ial Soul Food
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
Noshes
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
Noshes
Luminous, Luscious Latkes; Bewitching, Beguiling Hamantashen
Ode to the Latke
The Ineffable Allure of Hamantashen
Bull's Homage to a Latke: An Acrostic
Noshes
Combine and Deconstruct All Ingredients
Madeleine, Oh, Madeleine; or, Meditation on Short, Plump Pastries
The Hermeneutics of the Hamantash
Noshes
Semiotics and Anti-Semiotics
Heartburn as a Cultural System
Latke vs. Hamantash: A Feminist Critique
Latke vs. Hamantash: A Materialist-Feminist Analysis; A Reply to Judith Shapiro
Latkes and Hamantashen as Dominant Symbols in Jewish Critical Thought
The Hamantash vs. the Latke: An Archetypal Study
Noshes
Shrouded in Mystery: Spinning latkes and Neutrinos
From Cain to Quincy: Jewish Foods as Weapons of Violence
A New Page in the History of Atomic Physics
The Scientific Method and the Latke-Hamantash Issue
Paired Matter, Edible and Inedible
Noshes
Appealing to a Higher Authority
The Rights and Wrongs of Latkes
The Bioethical Implications of the Latke-Hamantash Debate; or, Small Fry, Deep Fry, in Your Eye, Northrop Frye
Noshes
Mythdefying Origins
Euripides' The Cooks of Troy: Hecuba's Lament
The Secret History of the Hamantash in China
The Hamantash and the Foundation of Civilization; or, The Edible Triangle, the Oedipal Triangle, and the Interpretation of History
The Archetypal Hamantash: A Feminist Mythology; An Exercise in the History of Religious Methodology
Noshes
Try 'em, You'll Like 'em: Lovely, Luscious Latkes and Hamantashen Fit for an Ex-Queen
Glossary
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