Food prices shot up overnight.  Starvation threatened families from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Lower East Side to the Bronx.  The city did nothing.  A group of women came together to demand action.  Boycotts accelerated into riots.

The year was 1917.

America has provided the chance for freedom and new life to the immigrants of Orchard Street in New York City.  Yet fear moves through the community as food prices begin to rise. When it becomes impossible for a group of “everyday housewives” to feed their families, they must unite, because standing together, no matter how terrified you are, is more important than suffering alone. Using original text and source materials, Give Us Bread tells the remarkable stories of immigrant women, who provide a lens with which to examine today.

And the Jew and the Carrot readers have to opportunity to win FREE tickets to the show!

Just send us your favorite bread recipe at contest@jcarrot.org (please cite the source of the recipe as we will publish the contest winner) to be entered into a raffle for two free tickets to select shows of Give Us Bread.  All entries must be recieved by Sunday May 31 (winner will be announced the following day)  The performances are June 5-21, 2009, at the Milagro Theater at CSV (107 Suffolk Street) New York, NY.