Title: The Bagel: A Cultural History
Author: Maria Balinska
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2008
288 pages
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Despite some mispronunciations by the reader, this is an engaging history of the bagel, though it's really a history of the bagel, Jews in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and the Jews and labor unions in the US. Really, there isn't a lot to say about the bagel itself, but the bagel as an organizing strategy for a social history works well.
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