RECORD
Dalia Carmel, Interview 2: October 1, 2009
- Permalink:
- https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/4xgxd2qq
- Interview Title:
- Dalia Carmel, Interview 2: October 1, 2009
- Description:
- Carmel discusses the Lavon Affair; her eventual decision to leave Israel, first for London and eventually—she thought temporarily—for the United States; the gradual development of her cookbook collection, and her decision to donate the volumes to the Fales Library.
- Narrator Name:
- Dalia Carmel
- Narrator Biography:
- Food scholar Dalia Carmel has been called "the angel of American food writers" because she made her 11,000-volume personal library of cookbooks available to all who asked. Assembled over 40 years, the library covers nearly every geographical area, ethnicity, and ingredient. Born in Israel, Carmel came to the United States in 1960. She had been inadvertently caught up in Operation Suzannah, a 1954 plot to undermine international support for Egypt as a reliable administrator of the Suez Canal. When the operation failed, it morphed into a political quagmire known as the Lavon Affair. Because Carmel, then a young soldier working in the Finance Ministry, had, under orders, altered a document related to the affair, she unhappily became a public figure.
- Interviewer Name:
- Judith Weinraub
- Interview Number:
- 2
- Date:
- 2009-10-01
- Total Length of Interview:
- 1 hour, 14 minutes
- Segment 1 Duration:
- 0:25:22
- Segment 1 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Carmel_Dalia-interview_2/Carmel_Dalia-2009_10_01-a-interview.precision.en.txt
- Segment 2 Duration:
- 0:48:36
- Segment 2 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Carmel_Dalia-interview_2/Carmel_Dalia-2009_10_01-b-interview.precision.en.txt
- Topics:
- Cookbooks Cooking - American Cooking - Jewish Cooking history Dinners and dining Entertainment Gastronomy
- People:
- Avigur, Shaoul Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 Brown, Bianca Carmel, Dalia De Silva, Cara Eshkol, Levi, 1895-1969 Gibli, Binyamin Goldstein, Herbert Hausner, Gideon, 1915-1990 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Lavon , Pinchas Nestle, Marion Pachter, Mina Peer, Edith Stern, Annie Taube, Judith Taylor, Marvin J.
- Organizations:
- El al, netive aṿir le-Yiśrael (El Al Israel Airlines) Fales Library Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoah ṿela-gevurah (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem)
- Places:
- Israel
- Previous Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/dc_09_24_2009.html
- File Type:
- sound
- Resource Type:
- oral histories (literary works)
- NYU Call Number:
- MSS_309.ref15.1
- Object Identifier:
- dc_10_01_2009
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Dalia Carmel, Interview 2: October 1, 2009", Voices from the Food Revolution- People Who Changed The Way Americans Eat, NYU Fales Library
- Reference Link:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/dc_10_01_2009.html