JEWISH ENCOUNTERS IN THE COFFEEHOUSE

The starting point for our session is Professor Pinsker’s book A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture, winner of the American Jewish Studies 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. Pinsker explores how the milieu of the café played a critical role in the transition into modernity, creating spaces for residents and newcomers to meet and exchange ideas, often inspiring new literary works and cultural trends.

Professor Pinsker was joined by Professor Marci Shore, author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968. Shore’s book, a recipient of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award, introduces the young avant-garde poets of the early 1920s who became radical Marxists by the end of the decade. They often met in Warsaw’s Café Ziemiańska, a venue that has a prominent role in Pinsker’s book.

The discussion was moderated by Edward Serotta, founder and director of Centropa, a Vienna-based Jewish historical institute.

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