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Ginger and the Jews
A name, a talmudic cure, and a favorite flavoring.
Israel Zangwill was an Anglo-Jewish playwright, an early supporter of Zionism, and probably responsible for popularizing the word ghetto in English. Naftali Herz Imber was the author of “Hatikvah,” which became Israel’s national anthem. What they shared, besides literary aspirations and a belief in Jewish self-determination, were surnames that mean “ginger.” (Another common Jewish name, Ingber, is another variant.) Though this spice is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Jews have cared about it for a long time, as Paola Gavin writes:
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