‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time | Eater

"A Jewish research institute that became the repository for the sole surviving copy of Lewando’s 1938 Yiddish vegetarian cookbook after a married couple purchased it from an antiquarian bookseller in England and donated it. The volume sat in the institute’s rare book holdings for nearly two decades until members of a book group discovered it, arranged for translation and helped bring it to wider attention and eventual republication, highlighting the institute’s role in preserving and enabling access to vanished aspects of prewar Vilnius Jewish culture; the organization itself traces institutional roots back to Vilnius before relocating in 1940." - Aimee Levitt