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Living Lens Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

by Alana Newhouse
Living Lens Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

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ISBN13: 9780393062694
ISBN10: 0393062694
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This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the history one has learned to associate with the Forward'"Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies'"along with gems no one would expect. The premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews in the twentieth century and beyond. From shtetl beauty contests and matchmakers caught mid-deal to the streets of the New World; from diaspora communities and mandate Palestine to the Holocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement, and the emergence of Jewish suburbia; from Paul Muni and Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen and Madonna'"this book is a kaleidoscopic array of modern Jewish life. Original essays are included by leading intellectuals and historians, including Leon Wieseltier, J. Hoberman, Roger Kahn, and Deborah E. Lipstadt, plus an introduction by Pete Hamill. A great gift book in the tradition of Roman Vishniac's A Vanished Worldand Frederic Brenner's Diaspora: Homelands in Exile.

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"Not only an amazing book, but an invaluable artifact and a work of art." Jonathan Safran Foer

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"The title couldn't be more apt--'living' is the key to this glorious photographic history....Viewing the archives, accompanied by their complicated voices, is a great, unsettling, sensual and intelligent joy." Tony Kushner

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"Each picture is worth well more than a thousand words. They provide a window to important times in our history that are long gone but will live in our hearts and minds forever." Sid Caesar

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"If a photograph of the Jewish soul exists, it will be discovered in the metal filing cabinets of the . Until then, we have this book: here is what it looked like, and how it felt, to be a Jew in the Twentieth Century." Nicole Krauss

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"A feast for the eyes...bringing alive a long vanished world that's still eerily present."--Daniel Czitrom, New York Post

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This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the history one has learned to associate with the --Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies--along with gems no one would expect. The premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews in the twentieth century and beyond. From shtetl beauty contests and matchmakers caught mid-deal to the streets of the New World; from diaspora communities and mandate Palestine to the Holocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement, and the emergence of Jewish suburbia; from Paul Muni and Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen and Madonna--this book is a kaleidoscopic array of modern Jewish life. Original essays are included by leading intellectuals and historians, including Leon Wieseltier, J. Hoberman, Roger Kahn, and Deborah E. Lipstadt, plus an introduction by Pete Hamill. A great gift book in the tradition of Roman Vishniac's and Frederic Brenner's .

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The finest photographic account of Jewish life in America.

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Alana Newhouse is the Arts & Culture editor at the Forward. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN:
9780393062694
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
04/17/2007
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Pages:
352
Height:
1.07IN
Width:
9.46IN
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2007
UPC Code:
2800393062696
Author:
Chana Pollack
Editor:
Alana Newhouse
Author:
Alana Newhouse
Intro:
Pete Hamill
Subject:
Photography-Annuals
Subject:
Immigrants
Subject:
Jews -- United States -- Social conditions.
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject:
Jewish studies

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