ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the impact of the First World War on the kosher foodways of German Jews. Due to limited space, the chapter concentrates on German Jews and not on the broader group of Jews living in Germany, hence there will be only limited exploration of the foodways of East European Jews, many of whom had settled in Germany since the 1880s. Abusch-Magder has pointed to the centrality of Jewish women in the day-to-day enactment and definition of kashrut in Imperial Germany before 1914. The chapter uses her findings, but also addresses the role of men in the daily enactment of kashrut in wartime Germany. Food problems also existed on the battlefront. Generally, soldiers enjoyed better food, particularly at the beginning of the war, than those at home due to the army's tight supervision of food provision for the soldiers and the states policy of serving the soldiers first.
