Contents

Preface: Always Left Wanting More

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name

1. According to the Customer’s Desire: The First Delicatessens in Eastern Europe and the United States

2. From a Sandwich to a National Institution: Delicatessens in the Jazz Age and the Interwar Era

3. Send a Salami: Delicatessens during the Second World War and the Postwar Exodus from New York

4. Miss Hebrew National Salami: The Movement to the Suburbs and the Decline of the Deli

Conclusion: The Contemporary Jewish Deli—Whistling Past the Graveyard

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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