Helene Sinnreich

@helenesinnreich.bsky.social

Holocaust scholar, mom of boys, cats and a dog. Foodie. All options are my own.

Years of day school, yeshiva, college, and grad school, and nothing prepared me for the single most important fact in history: Jews coined the word pizza.

Screenshot of tweet From ucl hebrew The first known mention of the Italian word pizza appears in a Judeo-Italian text (Italian written in Hebrew script), from the 14th century. The first non-Jewish mention of the word pizza appears more than 200 years later. #