Jane Ziegelman

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Jane Ziegelman is director of the culinary program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City and author of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families and Foie Gras: A Passion. [1]

Her 2010 book 97 Orchard [2] is about Jewish, Irish, German, Russian and Italian people living together in a tenement building on Orchard Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side between 1863 and 1936. The book was published by HarperCollins. [3] The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is located at 97 Orchard.

In 2016, Ziegelman and her husband, Andrew Coe, publisher A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, a history of the deprivations of Americans during the Great Depression. [4]

Her 2026 book, Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World describes yizkor books and the memory of her family of the extermination of the Jewish population of Liuboml by the Nazis in 1942. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Garner, Dwight (July 27, 2010). "In a Tenement's Meager Kitchens, a Historian Looks for Insights". The New York Times . Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  2. ↑ Ziegelman, Jane (August 3, 2011). "Immigrant Identities, Preserved in Vinegar?". The New York Times . Retrieved January 27, 2026.
  3. ↑ Ziegelman, Jane (2010). 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. HarperCollins. ISBN   978-0-0612-8850-0.
  4. ↑ Ziegelman, Jane (2016). A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression. HarperCollins. ISBN   978-0-06-221641-0.
  5. ↑ Ziegelman, Jane (2026). Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World. St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-1-250-28433-4.; "Review", Publishers Weekly
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