Chicago Congregation
Merges with Offspring

Noted Authors' Classics and Cookery in
The Literary Gourmet' ; Bible Selection,
Sholom Aleichem Story Mingle with Recipes

CHICAGO, (JTA) — A 92-
year-old Orthodox synagogue
merged with one of its offshoot
congregations. The new congre-
gation is Anshe Sholom Bnai
Israel, made up of the parent
Anshe Sholom and the offshoot
There is food in literature,
Lakeview Anshe Sholom Bnai and its epicurean role is so ex-
Israel. The merged congrega- tensive that it forms a library
tion will use the building of the all its own.
younger one.
In the works of the world's
greatest writers, beginning with
N. Y. Home for Aged
the biblical scribes and con-
Announces Expansion tinuing through the modern
NEW YORK, (JTA) -- More age, food is. spoken of with
than $300,000 was raised at the relish and delight. •
For instance, in the John
46th anniversary dinner here
of the Riverdale Hebrew Horne Steihbeck story, • "Breakfast,"
for the Aged attended by some which the _recently chosen No-
850 persons. The funds are to bel Prize Winner in Literature
be used for the expansion and was to have included in "Grapes
construction of a two-story ad- of Wrath" but which instead
dition - to the existing 102-bed retains an entity of its own, it
infirmary of the home.
is "feeding of the hungrier by
the hungry" that has • a "reli-
gious quality." This is how it is
judged in a most unusual, en-
tertaining and informative book
— "The Literary Gourmet,"
written and edited by Linda
Wolfe, published by Random
House. A delightful and im-
pressive series of drawings in
Jan. 10 — To Mr. and Mrs.
the book is by Frederick E.
Richard .Lober (Margie Rosen- Banbery.
berg), 3822 W. 13 Mile, Royal
Scenes from great literary
.Oak, a daughter, Vicki Lynn.
classics appear in this splen-
didwork. Appended to them
Jan. 7—To Mr. and Mrs. Dale
Silverberg (Lynne Beth Smok- are recipes, all of which have
ler), 3120 Woodstock, a daugh- been tried at the famous Four
Seasons Restaurant in New
ter, Karen Gail.
* * *
York. Facts about the art of
Jan. 7—To Mr. and Mrs. Ed- cooking, anecdotes and de-
ward Barry Stulberg (Aline Lap- scriptive comments about the
pin), a son, Daniel. Ivan.
world's eminent authors
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whose works appear in this
Jan. 6—To Mr. and Mrs. Leon book, make "The Literary
Levine (Rosalind Epstein), 24623 Gourmet" stand out as a
Rensselaer, Oak Park, a daugh- noteworthy volume.
ter, Leslie Beth.
Interestingly and appropriate-
* * *
Jan. 4—To Mr. and Mrs. Fred ly, the book commences with
the ancient world, and, turning
J. Miller, 1362 Nicolet, a son,
to the Bible, the first quoted
Jamie Lewis, "
historic item is "The Story of
• * *
Jacob and Esau." Jacob is de-
. Jan. 3
,To Mr. and Mrs.
picted here as the "conniving
Alexander Solomon (Elaine
brother," who pleaded with his
Brown, formerly of Cleveland),
father, after being cheated, also
18281 Prairie, a daughter, Beth
to be blessed. But the problem
Joy.
is not theological. It is faced
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Dec. 31 — To Mr. and Mrs. here sociologically, for the pur-
Frank Lieberman (Karen Sa- pose of introducing good cook-
gas), 14820 Turner, a daughter, ery. After quoting the Biblical
story, the enterprising author,
Lori Renee.
herself a good cook, offers a
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Dec. 29—TO Mr. and Mrs. Ger- menu: Red pottage of lentils,
ald Ross (Susan Blondy), 18608 pointing out: "No cookbooks
Sunset, Livonia, a son, Philip have come down to us from
Biblical times and I have re-
David.
lied, in making this recipe for
* *
Dec. 28 — To Mr. and Mrs. lentil pottage, on Biblical en-
Marvin Kaye (Barbara Weiner), cyclopedias and concordances."
13309 Winchester, Huntington Then she offers this Red Pot-
tage of Lentils recipe, which
Woods, a son, Stuart Paul.
serves 8-10:
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Announcements

Dec. 12 — To Mr. and Mrs.
David Lebenbom (Elaine Fried-
man), 19500 Mendota, a son,
•Matthew Alan.
,
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Dec. 5—To Dr. and Mrs. Ben-
jamin N. Sherbin (Lenore Alt-
man), 14228 Riverview, an adopt-
ed son, Aaron Howard.
* * *
To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Dul-
berg (Florence Kobaker), 24011
Jerome, Oak Park, a daughter,
Lynn Rose.

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2 cups lentils
2-3 quarts water
meat (leftover poultry hones or
soup meat or what you will.)
Chopped onions and garlic, sautees
in olive oil
salt to taste
All these ingredients were used in
soups by the ancient Hebrews. For a
dish that will resemble , the • pottage
for which Esau sold his birthright,
soak the lentils overnight in cold
water to cover; drain them and place
in a deep kettle with water; add
meat and simmer soup and meat
gently for 3-4 -hours. A half hour be-
fore the pottage is done, add the
sauteed chopped onions and garlic.
Taste; add salt if needed.

Others in the ancient world
whose work s, supplemented
with appropriate recipes and
menus, are utilized for the able
author-editor's purpose, are:
Horace (29 BCE), Arabian
Nights, Giovanni Boccaccio
(1348-53), Chaucer (1400),
Shakespeare ("The Taming of

q3nai
Activities

SHOLEM ALEICHEM LODGE
will meet 10 a.m. Sunday' at the
Bnai Brith Council Office, 19186
James Couzens. Harry Kaminer,
chairman of the Landsmanshaf ten
committee for the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, will speak on the
role of the late poet H. Leivick
in Jewish literature. The Jewish-
speaking dodge invites friends
and prospective members.

SHOLOM ALEICHEM

the Shrew"-1594), Cervantes
(1615), Ben Janson (1616).
From the ancient Linda
Wolfe turns to the Old World,
dealing with these authors:
Daniel Dafoe, Oliver Goldsmith,
Jane Ansten, Nikolai Gogol,
Charles Dickens, Alexandre Du-
mas, William Makepeae Thacke-
ray, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tol-
soy, Emile Zola, Guy de Mau-
passant, Anton Chekhov, Oscan
Wilde, Marcel •Proust, Sholom
Aleichem, John Galsworthy,
Thomas Mann and Virginia
Woolf.
In the final section it is the
New World, with these authors:
Joel Barlow, Washington Irv-
ing, Herman Melville, Lacadio
Hearn, Theodore Dreiser, Hen-
ry James, Thomas Wolfe and
John Steinbeck.
A famous Kasrielevky story,
"Tit for Tat," (1915), re-
printed from-"The Old Coun-
try," translated by Julius and
Frances Butwin, is utilized
for the Sholom Aleichem por-
tion of the book. It is a story
in which first the moral weak-
ness of a rabbi and then the
insincerity of "leading cit-
izens" of the town are ex-
posed in typically satirical
Sholom Aleichem fashion.
In her editorial note, Linda
Wolfe reveals a deep under-
standing of Sholom Aleichem,
his time, his works, the char-
acters in • his stories. "Poverty
and hunger, so much a part of
the life of the poor East Euro-
pean Jew, form the warp of
Sholom Aleichem's tales. Across
it, as the woof, lie his warmth,
his irony and his wit. Poverty
is a precondition, but how do
the people live with and on top
of it? They survive with their
humor. Humor is their defense,
their means of making a miser-
able life endurable . . . The
food in the story is so complete
that it might form the menu of
a Jewish restaurant—or, rather,
two Jewish restaurants, one
serving meat dishes and the
other dairy dishes . . . "
After offering the 13-page
story "Tit for Tat," there are
seven pages of menus and rec-
ipes—a veritable cookbook in
itself. Some of the recipes are
taken from Jennie Grossinger's
"The Art of Jewish Cooking."
Others were provided for this
book by Emma and Minna Kauf-
man.
Chicken soup with Dumplings,
Beef Pot Roast with Garlic,
Fresh Warm Twist, Gefilte
Fish, Tzimmes with a Piece of
Brisket of Beef, Chopped Her-
ring, Potato Cholent, Kugel,
Borsch t, Cheese Kreplach-
these are the recipes provided
to make the mouth water as
one glances over them, just as
the mouth waters upon reading

the description of food in the
Sholom Aleichem story.
Linda Wolfe, . in her fore-
word, talks about food as
turning points in plots of the
quoted stories: "lovely ladies
have been headed down the
primrose path to sin with a
sirloin steak as Theodore
Dreiser does it in 'Sister Car-
rie,' or with a platter of quail
in plumage, as Gustave Flau-
bert does it in "Madame Bo-
vary'; shrewish heroines have
been subdued with the offer
of teacakes or mustard sauce
on beef; sated lovers have re-
newed their passion over dev-
iled chicken; and fictional
families, in trouble have been
held together with a pan of
freshly-baked biscuits or a
well-roasted goose."
Linda Wolfe, a Time maga-
zine researcher, formerly an
English instructor at Queens
College, has done much story-
writing and editing. Her ex-
planatory notes are informa-
tive, her comments delightful.
The book's illustrator, Fred-
erick E. Banbery, born and ed-
ucated in England, came to the
United States in 1946, after
serving in the Royal Air Force.
He has worked in graphic arts
and has won a medal for edi-
torial art in 1951.

Gershenson-Keller
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GERSHENSON

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ger-
shenson, 17471 Hamilton, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Frederica, to Everett
B. Keller of New York City, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Keller of
Washington, D.C.
Miss Gershenson is attending
the University of Michigan: Her
fiance, a graduate of Michigan
State University, is a junior ad-
vertising executive in New
York.
Wedding plans will be an-
nounced shortly.

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