Eve Jochnowitz

Eve Jochnowitz is a Yiddish scholar, culinary ethnographer, chef, and baker.  Eve has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual as well as food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. 

Eve received her PhD on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography from New York University’s Performance Studies Department. She translated and edited “The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook” by restaurateur Fania Lewando, which is based on a 1938 Yiddish cookbook. She also runs the video program “Est Gezunterheyt” with author Rukhl Schaechter for The Yiddish Daily Forward.