Subject Guide: Cooking & Cookbooks

Cookbooks in German

Almas Küche: Originalrezepte aus dem Kochbuch der Alma Mahler-Werfel / Claudia Nemec. Wien : Seifert Verlag, 2016.

Ima, darf ich helfen? = Ima, may I help you: ein Kinderkochbuch fuer die Koscherkueche = a children's cookbook for the kosher kitchens / Kaethi Frenkel-Bloch. Baden: Menes Verlag, 2008.

Kochbuch für Israelitische Frauen: Enthaltend die Verschiedensten Koch- und Backarten mit einer Vollständigen Speisekarte und einer Hausapotheke Sowie einer Genauen Anweisung zur Einrichtung und Führung einer Religiös-Jüdischen Haushaltung / Rebekka Wolf, geb. Heinemann, in Berlin. Neunte verbesserte Auflage..ed., 1888. [Digitized]

Koscher Style: 80 Koestliche Rezepte aus der Juedischen Kueche / Rachel Heuberger, Regina Schneider; Fotografie von Barbara Lutterbeck. Muenchen: Collection Rolf Heyne, 2004.

Die Moderne Jüdische Küche / Leah Koenig; Photographien Sang An; aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Nicola T. Stuart. Berlin: Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart, 2015.

Cookbooks in English

The Art of Jewish Cooking / Jennie Grossinger. London: Arlington Books, 1962. 

The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine / Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman. Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press 2017.

In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin / edited by Cara De Silva; translated by Bianca Steiner Brown; foreword by Michael Berenbaum. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1996.

Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes / András Koerner. Budapest, Hungary: co-published by Central European University Press and Corvina Books Ltd., 2019.

Pastries from the Past: From My Grandmother's Recipe Book / Judith Gurfinkel; co-producer Leora Steif. Vancouver, Canada: Judith Gurfinkel, 2022.

Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival: The Remarkable Stories and Authentic Recipes of Holocaust Survivors / compiled by June Feiss Hersh. Eat Well, Do Good, 2012.

Recipes Remembered; German-Jewish Specialties / Congregation Habonim Sisterhood. NY: Sisterhood of Congregation Habonim, 1976.

Viennese Cooking / O. and A. Hess; edited and translated by Carla Schlesinger. New York: Crown Publishers, 1960.

Cookbooks Collection 1840, 1842, 1886, 1890s [Digitized]

Two handwritten cookbooks: the first is predominated by recipes for pastries and baked goods (232 pages). After the first 131 recipes is a signed dedication from Ernst Lampert of Potsdam (1842, page 95), and most of the remaining recipes appear to have been added by Alice Ehrlich beginning in 1886. The second contains a wider variety of recipes by Herta Fleck, 37 in total, mostly dated to the early 1890s.

Cookbook of E. L. Borchert, 1850 [Digitized]

E. L. Borchert's cookbook from Landsberg, composed entirely of handwritten recipes.

Cookbook of Frau Dr. Jonas, 1908-1912 [Digitized]

Handwritten cookbook with entries of various recipes, started in Altona, Germany in 1908.

Das Buch Alice: Wie Die Nazis das Kochbuch Meiner Großmutter Raubten / Karina Urbach. Berlin: Propyläen, 2020.

Global Jewish Foodways: A History / edited and with an introduction by Hasia R. Diner and Simone Cinotto; foreword by Carlo Petrini. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries / Henry Notaker. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017.

Milch & Hering: Jewish Foodshops in New York / Michael Melcer, Patricia Schon. Bonn: Weidle, 2002.

Paprika: A Spicy Memoir from Hungary / Joanne Sasvari. Toronto, ON: CanWest Books, 2005.

A Taste of the Past: The Daily Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker / Andras Koerner. Hanover, NH: London: University Press of New England, 2004. [Includes recipes]