Jochnowitz, Eve
June 19, 1963-
Born in Philadelphia. Grew up in New York City. Earned her doctorate in 2014 at New York University with a dissertation on the food of Jewish Immigrants from the Soviet Union, in the USA.
Translator from Yiddish to English of The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (original: Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh [Vegetarian Diet Cookbook) by Fania Lewando, Vilna, 1938.
According to the YIVO website: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook appears on NPR (National Public Radio)’s list of Best Books of 2015 and is also on Jewish Book Council’s list of the 10 most popular books in 2015. It was named one of Publisher Weekly’s Top Cookbook Stories of 2015.
A Yiddish language teacher at Columbia University, Rutgers University, Workers Circle, YIVO in New York, and elsewhere.
Author of a significant website blog, In Mol Araan (In Your Mouth) -- in Yiddish and English -- about Jewish vegetarian cooking and also about Jewish culinary lexicography: https://inmolaraan.blogspot.com/
An expert in adaptation of old Yiddish recipes into modern methodology. Active in Yugntruf (Call to Youth) and Yidish-Vokh (Yiddish Week).
Academic articles by Jochnowitz in English about Jewish food which reference a number of written works in Yiddish are listed here:
https://columbia.academia.edu/
You can find Jochnowitz on YouTube in the cooking show “Es Gezunterheyt” (Eat in Good Health) by the Yiddish Forverts. There are English subtitles on each of the videos. Her partner in the program is Sore-Rukhl Schaechter, the current editor of the Yiddish Forverts. Here is just one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Jochnowitz was a fellow at the Frankel Institute of Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan 2019-2020. She lectures all over the world on Jewish (and Yiddish) culinary topics.
She lives in New York City.