Good afternoon everyone I hope you’re having a good Sunday. I picked this interesting looking proof up at work today. I love memoirs that include travel and food so this book instantly appealed to me.
Huge thanks to the publisher for sending to the bookshop.
Out 23rd May 2024.
Book Synopsis:
A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration.
As a child, Or Rosenboim’s knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her – round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, stuffed vine leaves, herby green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers’ recipe books after they both died that she began to explore that past for the first time.
The result is a vivid chronicle of displacement and escape, retracing the complex network of journeys her family took from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in search of safety and a better life, punctuated by the food they ate and cooked along the way. Today, though, these journeys, and this long tradition of migration, would now be almost impossible.
A beguiling mixture of history, memoir, travel and food, Air and Love is also a fresh and deeply human retelling of some of the major stories of the twentieth century.
About The Author:
I am Associate Professor in Contemporary History at Alma Mater Studiorum, the University of Bologna.
I hold a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Cambridge, M.St in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford, UK, and BA (summa cum laude) in Modern History from the University of Bologna, Italy.
Before joining the University of Bologna I was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Modern History at City, University of London. Previously, I was Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Teaching Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge.
I held visiting studentships and fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, Sciences Po, Paris and LUISS, Rome.
My research examines the twentieth century ideas about world order, globalism and migration.
I’ve published on geopolitics, cosmopolitanism, federalism and democracy theory in Britain, Europe and the United States. I am also interested in the relationship between intellectual history and international theory. Recently, I’ve been writing on Italian international and geopolitical thought in the the twentieth century.
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