ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies returns for a second season of in-depth discussions about the research and ideas shaping Jewish Canada!
In this first episode of Season 2, host Jonathan Slater sits down with librarian, food historian, and genealogist Kaye Prince-Hollenberg to reflect on her vital work collecting Canadian Jewish community cookbooks, excavating their recipes, and tracing the lives of their contributors (most of whom were women). Kaye also describes her related work reviving the recipes of women who submitted their creations to The Canadian Jewish Review’s “Class in Cookery” column. She and Jonathan also dive into the role women have long played in preserving Jewish culinary traditions and how genealogists can use culinary sources in conducting family history.
OUR GUEST
Kaye Prince-Hollenberg is a professional genealogist based in Hamilton, Ontario. She specializes in Jewish genealogy and holocaust Research; when not conducting research for clients, she spends her days as a librarian at a public library, and is the associate genealogist at the Holocaust Reunion Project.
She serves as director of education and DATO research associate at Gesher Galicia, volunteers as the JRI-Poland town leader for Korolówka and Zaleszczyki, and was the founding curator of the Margaret’s Legacy Holocaust Learning Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.
Her Substack, “Paper Trails with Kaye Prince-Hollenberg,” combines vintage recipes and genealogy research in an effort to reunite searchers with family recipes.
RECOMMENDED READING
Northern Noshes, a Canadian Jewish community cookbook archive
Read issues ofThe Canadian Jewish Review (1921-1966) at the Internet Archive
EPISODE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Host: Jonathan Slater
Producer/Editor: Theadora Draper
Music: J.K. Bradley
Executive Producers: Joshua Tapper and David S. Koffman
Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies is made possible by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Aid to Scholarly Journals program and the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, both at York University.