Michael W. Twitty: This Is What Jewish Looks Like
Monday, February 22
6:00 PM EST
Free
A culinary historian and anthropologist, Michael Twitty is the author of The Cooking Gene, the James Beard Foundation book of the year in 2018. Twitty is a popular speaker about how we process our identities through food, as he does in his matzo meal fried chicken and black-eyed pea hummus. He is currently tracing his personal journey as an African American Jewish man in his forthcoming Kosher Soul.
In conversation with long-time Temple Emanu-El staff member Prince Davis.
About the series:
This Is What Jewish Looks Like
It’s long been a point of pride that Jews are a multicultural people with roots in every corner of the planet; that we are of all hues; that our grandparents spoke Yiddish and Hindi, German and Malayalam, Hebrew and Amharic.
After all, our global Jewish community is composed of the descendants of Jews who moved to present-day Iraq after the Babylonian Exile, Chinese Jews whose ancestors were Persians traveling the Silk Road, European Jews living all across the Continent long before the word Ashkenazi was ever uttered and African Jews scattered from Ethiopia to Mali for thousands of years.
Their descendants, in turn, migrated to the United States, where an estimated 12-15 percent of the Jewish community are Jews of color, including many of African descent.
For Black History Month, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will celebrate our richly diverse experience through the personal stories of four prominent Black Jews who will talk about life as a minority within a minority and discuss what the Jewish community needs to do to turn the word inclusion into a reality.
Rebecca Walker
Monday, February 1
Avishai Mekonen
Monday, February 8
Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll
Monday, February 15
Michael W. Twitty
Monday, February 22
All events in the series start at 6:00 PM EST