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The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread /

Title
The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
Author
Balinska, Maria.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

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Description
xx, 220 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-210) and index.
Contents
The family tree -- Of bagels and kings -- Rituals, rhymes and revolutions: how the bagel lost its worth but kept its value -- Bagel polemics in an independent Poland -- Boiling over: the immigrant bagel and the struggle for workers' rights -- 'Kings of the line': the story of Bagel Bakers' Union Local No. 338 -- The 'bagelising' of America.
ISBN
  • 9780300112290 (ci : alk. paper)
  • 0300112297 (ci : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008026763
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library