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Leipzig: Thursday 15.05.2025

The German National Library in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Thursday 16.05.2025 due to maintenance work.
The Museum Reading Room and the exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will be open.

"What should I cook?" Recipes from the German Exile Archive 1933-1945

The collections of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 have preserved various documents on this topic: cookbooks and handwritten traditional recipes that were taken into exile, cookbooks written in the refugees’ new domiciles which were deliberately adjusted to accommodate their new lifestyle, recipes that were taken out of the host country in case the emigrants had to return. Even exile press publications such as “Aufbau” and the “Shanghai Jewish Chronicle” devoted a column to cookery. Discover a collection of recipes for savoury and sweet dishes served either hot or cold.

The recipe booklet is also available in printed form. We would be pleased to send you a copy (while stocks last). Please contact us exilarchiv@dnb.de

Read the publication online

Last changes: 15.05.2020

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