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Jewish Homemakers Speak
“My mother always kept a kosher home, her mother before her kept a kosher home, she didn’t know anything but kosher.”
Cecilia Rose Waldman, oral history, 1994, St. Paul, MN. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“Although we lived in the country we kept a very strict kosher house. We would come to the city as my Dad would go down every day to deliver milk. My mother would make her own bread and butter and cheese, but the meat we would buy in a butcher shop. There were three or four kosher butcher shops in Duluth.”
Ida Cohen Golberg, oral history, 1981. Golberg’s family farmed near Duluth around the turn of this century. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“[W]hen we had Rebecca we decided to keep kosher. It seems that with every birth I decided to take on one more thing. We had the rabbi come in... He came late and it was winter. He took all our pots and pans outside, and he torched them and they were glowing. He brought a blowtorch to burn off the residue of trayfe cooking.”
Carol Porter Berlin, oral history, 1994. Berlin, who lived in the Twin Cities, married in the 1980s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
top photo: Florence Savitt demonstrating how to stretch dough for strudel and other delicacies. When she was done, the dough would almost cover the tablecloth and would be thin enough to read through. Minneapolis, MN, 1987. Courtesy of Minnesota Jewish Life.
inset photo, middle: Helen Carbove Rose arrived in St. Paul at the turn of the century and married in 1917. Courtesy of Cecilia Rose Waldman, St. Paul, MN.
inset photo, bottom: Kosher butcher shop receipt, St. Paul, 1946. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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