Great Latke-Hamantash Debate Book

Foreword, by Ted Cohen        
Acknowledgments       
Introduction
Food for Academic and Gastric Digestion
 
Round One - Metahamantashen; or, Shooting Off the Can(n)on
Freedom, Latkes, and American Letters: An Original Contribution to Knowledge
Bernard A. Weisberger        
 
Restoring the Jewish Canon
Allan Bloom         
 
Consolations of the Latke
Ted Cohen 
 
The Hamantash in Shakespeare
Lawrence Sherman    
 
Jane Austen’s Love and Latkes
Stuart Tave    
 
The Latke’s Role in the Renaissance
Hanna Holborn Gray       
 
The Approach through Bibliography
Leon Carnovsky  
 
L’éternel retour: The Dichotomy of Latke-Hamantash in Old and New French
Peter F. Dembowski    
 
The Apotheosis of the Latke: A Philosophical Analysis
Alan Gewirth   
 
Noshes
"David Malament, Marvin Mirsky, Steven Watter, Harold Wechsler        
 
Round Two - POTatoes, Rockin’ Latkes, and Another Essence-ial Soul Food
 
The Latke vs. the Hamantash in an Age of (M)oral Crisis
Herbert C. Kelman  
 
Influences of Latkes, Hamantashen, and Jewish Cooking inGeneral on the Roots of Rock 'n’
Roll
William Meadow   
 
The Fundamental Jewish Cuisine
Paul Root Wolpe      
 
Noshes
Steven Watter, Godfrey S. Getz, Israel N. Herstein, Murray H. Loew    
 
Round Three - Accentuate the Positivists

The Voyage on the Bagel: In Honor of the Darwin Centennial
Elihu Katz and Jacob J. Feldman
 
The Latke and the Hamantash at the Fifty-Yard Line
Milton Friedman 
 
Hamantash, Bagel, or Latke: Who Has the Power?
Shalom Schwartz   
 
The Latke, the Hamantash, the Common Market, and Creativity
Jacob Getzels
 
Noshes
Stephen Z. Cohen, Elihu Katz, Nancy L. Stein, Jacob Getzels, John Laster    
   
Round Four - Luminous, Luscious Latkes; Bewitching, Beguiling Hamantashen  Ode to the Latke
Edward Stankiewicz

The Ineffable Allure of Hamantashen
Barbara Maria Stafford

Bull's Homage to a Latke: An Acrostic
Simon Hellerstein

Noshes
Ralph Marcus, Roger Weiss

Round Five - Combine and Deconstruct All Ingredients

Madeleine, Oh, Madeleine; or, Meditation on Short, Plump Pastries
Françoise Meltzer

The Hermeneutics of the Hamantash
Emilie S. Passow

Noshes
Marianne H. Whatley, Hasia Diner

Round Six - Semiotics and Anti-Semiotics

Heartburn as a Cultural System
Michael Silverstein

Latke vs. Hamantash: A Feminist Critique
Judith Shapiro

Latke vs. Hamantash: A Materialist-Feminist Analysis; A Reply to Judith Shapiro
Robin Leidner

Latkes and Hamantashen as Dominant Symbols in Jewish Critical Thought
Marvin Mirsky

The Hamantash vs. the Latke: An Archetypal Study
Eugene Goodheart

Noshes
Zalman Usiskin, Harry Harootunian, Howard Aronson, Bernard S. Cohn, Ralph W. Nicholas

Round Seven - Shrouded in Mystery: Spinning Latkes and Neutrinos

From Cain to Quincy: Jewish Foods as Weapons of Violence
Robert Kirschner

A New Page in the History of Atomic Physics
Jerrold M. Sadock

The Scientific Method and the Latke-Hamantash Issue
Edward W. Kolb

Paired Matter, Edible and Inedible
Leon M. Lederman

Noshes
Josef Stern, Morrel H. Cohen, Isaac Abella

Round Eight - Appealing to a Higher Authority

The Rights and Wrongs of Latkes
Geoffrey R. Stone

The Bioethical Implications of the Latke-Hamantash Debate; or, Small Fry, Deep Fry, in Your Eye, Northrop Frye
John D. Lantos

Noshes
Harry Kalven, Jr., Philip Gossett

Round Nine - Mythdefying Origins

Euripides' The Cooks of Troy: Hecuba's Lament
Martha C. Nussbaum

The Secret History of the Hamantash in China
Judith Zeitlin

The Hamantash and the Foundation of Civilization; or, The Edible Triangle, the Oedipal Triangle, and the Interpretation of History
Harold T. Shapiro

The Archetypal Hamantash: A Feminist Mythology; An Exercise in the History of Religious Methodology
Wendy Doniger

Noshes
Tom Mitchell, Bernard S. Silberman, Richard Lashof, Sol Tax

Try 'em, You'll Like 'em: Lovely, Luscious Latkes and Hamantashen Fit for an Ex-Queen

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