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Despite the – not mythic, completely true – fact that Jews are obsessed with food, and despite the appropriation of bagels, chopped liver, schmaltz herring, chicken soup and salt beef by many, many non-Jewish outlets, particularly in
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Is this more to do with assimilation? Like the Irish in Boston, Jewish diaspora became strongly part of the identity of the city and snowballed out. I don't know for sure, but I think there is something different than appropriation and closer to diaspora Irish going on here.
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