Friday, September 04, 2020

Latkes or Hamentashen?


Since 1946, students and staff at the University of Chicago have gathered annually to watch a formal debate over the two foods. Three debaters and a moderator—all plucked from the university's hallowed academic staff—dispute the merits of these two Jewish foods. No one ever really wins, and certain rules apply: The three speakers must hold PhDs or equivalent qualifications, at least one must be a woman, and, to introduce a note of "gentility," one non-Jew must speak.

Are hamantashen the feminist choice (a pastry womb cradling a sacred prune filling)? Should any psychoanalyst pick latkes (are you sure it's Freud, and not Fryed)? These arguments, and others, are the product of 71 years of over-analysis by some of the most eminent thinkers of the University of Chicago.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/latke-hamantash-debate-chicago-hanukkah

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