Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?

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Name (Hebrew)
לעוואנדא, פאנני, 1875 בערך-1941?
Name (Latin)
Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?
Other forms of name
Leṿando, Fanni, approximately 1875-1941?
לבנדה, פני, 1875-1941?
Place of residence/headquarters
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Field of activity
Cooking Nutrition
Associated Language
yid
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 306409710
Wikidata: Q55526740
Library of congress: n 2014048507
Sources of Information
  • וועגעטאריש דיעטישער קאכבוך, 1938:
  • Garden-fresh recipes rediscovered and adapted for today's kitchen, 2015:ecip t.p. (Fania Lewando) publisher's information (Fania Lewando (c. 1875-1941?) was the proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in pre-World War II Vilna, Lithuania. She was also a noted nutrition advocate and founded a "dietary school" that taught Jewish women healthy cooking techniques. Fleeing the Nazi invasion of Vilna in the fall of 1941, she and her husband were captured by Soviet soldiers and died sometime thereafter).
  • The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook, 2015:t.p. (Fania Lewando)
  • Ṿegeṭarish-dieṭisher kokhbukh, 1938:(OCoLC)276173504 viewed Aug. 14 2014: (Lewando, Fania; Fanni Leṿando=פאנני לעוואנדא)
  • OCALC: Lewando, Fania, approximately 1875-1941?
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Wikipedia description:

Fania Lewando (Yiddish: פֿאַנני לעװאַנדאָ, née Fiszelewicz, 1888–1941) was a Polish-Jewish vegetarian chef, restaurateur, nutritionist, and cookbook author from Vilnius. She operated a vegetarian restaurant called Dieto-Jarska Jadłodajnia and in 1938 was author of the first known Yiddish language vegetarian cookbook in Europe.

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