Rachel Ringler (JTA)

Rachel Ringler writes for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Her content is reposted here with permission.

Flattened dough with circular holes cut into it as if making cookies

Icelandic Jewish Cookies: A Dessert with a Fascinating Story to Tell

Rachel Ringler (JTA)

August 11, 2020

Are the cookies Icelandic? Canadian? Dutch? Or Danish? No matter where you find them, the name is the same, hearkening back to a Jewish presence and the Jewish bakers who created them.