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The Latke - Hamantash Debate is a humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Jewish cuisine .1 The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at Stanford Law School , George Washington University , Amherst College , Swarthmore College , Williams College , Wesleyan University , the University of Wisconsin–Madison , Brandeis University , Harvard University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Princeton University , the University of Minnesota , Mount Holyoke , Bowdoin College , UCSD , Johns Hopkins University , and secondary school Milton Academy .2 Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium , have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray , philosopher Martha Nussbaum , Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman , and essayist Allan Bloom . A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. . The most recent Latke-Hamantash debates took place at Rutgers University and the University of Denver on February 28, 2010. University of Chicago Magazine "Latkes vs.3
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Logo from the annual debate at the University of Chicago in 2013 The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Jewish cuisine . The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities.Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium , have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray , philosopher Martha Nussbaum , former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee , Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman , George Stigler , and Leon M. Lederman , and essayist Allan Bloom . A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. University of Chicago Magazine . 98 (2).
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Logo from the annual debate at the University of Chicago in 2013 The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Jewish cuisine . The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities. Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium , have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray , philosopher Martha Nussbaum , former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee , Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman , George Stigler , Leon M. Lederman , and essayist Allan Bloom . A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. University of Chicago Magazine . 98 (2).
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Annual debate at the University of Chicago Logo from the annual debate at the University of Chicago in 2013 The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine . The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities. Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium , have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray , philosopher Martha Nussbaum , former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee , Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman , George Stigler , Leon M. Lederman , and essayist Allan Bloom . A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. University of Chicago Magazine . 98 (2).
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humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of jewish cuisine
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deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of ashkenazi je
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