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July 17, 2020

Dairy Restaurants’ Lost World of American Jewish Sociability

History à la carte.

While the kosher deli is a staple of American Jewish nostalgia, its more modest cousin, the dairy restaurant, has largely been forgotten. The Brooklyn-born cartoonist Ben Katchor attempts to correct this state of affairs in his recent illustrated history of the institution. Jenna Weissman Joselit writes in her review:

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July 17, 2020

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