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Swiss Jewish Foodways

Religious

Jewish communities in Basel, Zürich, Geneva and Lausanne, and the two Aargau villages of Endingen and Lengnau where Jews were confined for two centuries and developed a rural Swiss Jewish kitchen. Sabbath and festival cooking, kosher supply, and a long argument over kosher slaughter, banned by referendum in 1893 and still prohibited.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Swiss Jews community documented

What is recorded

  • Endingen and Lengnau in Aargau were the only two places Jews were permitted to live in Switzerland for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which produced a specific rural Swiss Jewish kitchen. Kosher slaughter has been prohibited since an 1893 referendum and kosher meat is imported; that is a live constraint, not a historical footnote. documented

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