Fanni Levando from Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh

Fania Lewando (Yiddish: פֿאַנני לעװאַנדאָ, née Fiszelewicz, 1888–1941) was a vegetarian chef, restaurateur, nutritionist, and cookbook author from Vilnius.[1][2] She operated a vegetarian restaurant called Dieto-Jarska Jadłodajnia and in 1938 was author of the first known Yiddish language vegetarian cookbook in Europe.[3][4][5][6]

Biography

She was born in 1888 or 1889 in Włocławek, Warsaw Governorate, Russian Empire (today located in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland).[3] Her parents were Haim Efraim Fiszelewicz, a Fishmonger, and Esther-Malakalah (née Stulzaft).[3] Most of her family emigrated to England or the United States at around the turn of the twentieth century.[3] She married an egg merchant named Lazar Lewando.[3] During the Russian Civil War they relocated to Vilnius, and attempted to emigrate to the United States, but were refused a visa.[3]

Lewando came to be well known in Vilnius for her vegetarian restaurant Dieto-Jarska Jadłodajnia which was located on Niemiecka street in the Jewish Quarter; it had a number of bohemian and celebrity guests including the artist Marc Chagall and the songwriter Itzik Manger.[1][7][8][3] She also operated a cooking school which was located a few blocks away.[1] She published her Yiddish-language vegetarian cookbook in 1938.[3][9] It contained a number of Jewish cooking recipes adapted for a vegetarian diet, and was exported to England and the United States. She attempted to market the recipes to the H. J. Heinz Company.[3]

Lewando and her husband died in 1941 during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.[3]

In 2017 the German artist Gunter Demnig installed Stolperstein for the Lewandos in Vilnius.[10]

Cookbook

Vegetarish-Dietisher Kokhbukh cover (1938)
  • Original Yiddish version: װעגעטאריש דיעטישער קאכבוך: 400 שפייזן געמאכט אויסשליסלעך פון גרינסן (Ṿegeṭarish-dieṭisher kokhbukh: 400 shpayzn gemakht oysshlishlekh fun grinsn). Vilnius: Druk. Inż. G. Kleckina, 1938.[11]
  • English translation: The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook. Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen, translated by Eve Jochnowitz, with a preface by Joan Nathan. Schocken Books, New York City 2015, (ISBN 978-0-8052-4327-7).
  • Polish translation: Dietojarska kuchnia żydowska Znak, 2020, (ISBN 978-8324071937).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Underwood, Nick (2019). "Vegetarianism as Jewish Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe". In Labendz, Jacob Ari; Yanklowitz, Shmuly (eds.). Jewish veganism and vegetarianism : studies and new directions. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. pp. 23–46. ISBN 9781438473628.
  2. ↑ "Healthy eating from a different lifetime". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lewando, Fania; Jochnowitz, Eve; Sicher, Efraim (2015). "Fania Lewando: A Lost Treasure from Jewish Vilna". The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook. New York: Schocken Books. pp. xxxiii–xxxvii. ISBN 9780805243277.
  4. ↑ "Veggie Burgers in 1930s Vilna – a Jewish Chef Ahead of Her Time". Haaretz. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  5. ↑ "Fanni Levando:Vegetarish-dietisher kokhbukh : 400 shpayzn gemakht oysshlislekh fun grins". Biblioteka Narodowa.
  6. ↑ "310611823". viaf.org. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  7. ↑ Karpinowitz, Abraham; Mintz, Helen (2016). Vilna my Vilna : stories (First ed.). Syracuse, New York. p. xiii. ISBN 9780815653523.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ "Traces of Jewish Cuisine in Vilnius | Go Vilnius". Go Vilnius. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Di froyen : conference proceedings : women and Yiddish, tribute to the past, directions for the future. New York: National Council of Jewish Women, New York Section, Jewish Women's Resource Center. 1997. p. 55. ISBN 9781879742505.
  10. ↑ "Stolpersteine in Vilnius: a meeting with relatives of famous Lithuanian Jews". Vilnius Jewish Public Library. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Polona". polona.pl. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
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