Shabbat Lunch Lecture on Purim
sam. 08 mars
|Philadelphia
Purim and the customs o Sephardic jews: Between Traditions and Culinary Evolutions (15th c. to the Present) Register: https://www.mikvehisrael.org/meals/p/drjawharapiner
Time & Location
08 mars 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
Philadelphia, 44 N 4th St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
About the event
Join us for a Shabbat Lunch Lecture with Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer • March 8, 2025
Purim, celebrated each year on the 14th of Adar, commemorates the deliverance of the Jews of Persia as recounted in the Book of Esther. Beyond its religious and festive significance, this holiday reflects rich cultural and culinary practices that have continuously evolved over the centuries and across the various regions where Sephardic communities settled.However, studying Sephardic culinary traditions related to Purim presents a major challenge: no direct primary sources, such as cookbooks or explicit writings, provide details of practices from the 15th and 16th centuries. Instead, it is through diverse and fragmentary sources—judicial records, personal correspondence, poems, and inventories—that a coherent picture of dietary customs emerges.
