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Nathan Kornmehl

Rolled Beef: “The Giant Panda of Deli Meats”

October 1, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 118 Comments

I learned a great deal about the late Nathan Kornmehl from the many testimonials that were sent to the memorial page of this blog. By all accounts, he was a generous, kind man, someone who didn't let the tremendous adversity he faced from the Nazis make him angry or bitter. I also learned that his kosher butcher shop was the source of the best rolled beef in Buffalo, New

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Nathan Kornmehl (1916 – 2013)

August 29, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 24 Comments

I was saddened by the recent news that Nathan Kornmehl had died, initially in the way you are saddened by the passing of a historical figure --  almost a fictional one. As Linda Chalmers Zemel, who interviewed him for the Buffalo Jewish Review in 2004 -- see Nathan Kornmehl's Story -- said of Nathan, who died last week at the age of 97: His life is the stuff authors draw upon

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The Last of the Kornmehl Butchers (Maybe)

August 23, 2012 by Edie Jarolim 32 Comments

I’m excited to welcome as my first guest poster one of my newly discovered relatives. Jill Leibman Kornmehl is the daughter-in-law of Nathan Kornmehl, at 96 years old the patriarch of the Kornmehl family. At least as far as I know. New branches of the family keep cropping up. I'm not ready to say anything definitive -- thus the title I gave this post. The more genealogical

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