Bring the Baked Goodness of Bea’s into Your Home

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It's a Sweet World: Recipes from Around the Globe at Bea’s Bakery
It's a Sweet World

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

  • About
Bea’s Bakery has been a much-loved fixture of California life for almost sixty years, providing comfort and nourishment to thousands in what was once a rich tradition of Jewish bakeries in America. Originally opened in 1968 by Sol Litwak and his son Jules, it was named after Sol’s wife Beatrice, known affectionately as “Bea,” and run by the father and son for over fifty years.

After Sol and Bea passed away, their son took over the iconic family bakery in Tarzana, Los Angeles, and continued working there until his death in 2023 at the age of eighty-seven. The previous year, Jules had decided it was time to pass the family business on to the next generation. He had many offers but knew that selling it to dynamic husband and wife Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri, was bashert—a Yiddish word for something that’s meant to be.