ABSTRACT
At the end of the nineteenth century a significant influx of Eastern European Jews moved into Britain. Although they initially demonstrated the norms of their homeland, especially through religion, food and language, they and their children would increasingly encompass the patterns of their neighbours in their new environment, demonstrating a process of both cultural transfer and integration. This essay demonstrates how the kosher eating refugees of the nineteenth century who consumed products that had evolved in the Russian Pale of Settlement would be replaced by descendants who, over generations, would increasingly consume the food of their gentile neighbours as they became anglicised.
