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

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The finest photographic account of Jewish life in The united states.

This atypical volume features classic photographs of the history one has learned to go together with the Forward―Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies―in conjunction with gems no person would be expecting. The premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews within the twentieth century and beyond. From shtetl good looks 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 up to date 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. An excellent gift book within the tradition of Roman Vishniac’s A Vanished World and Frederic Brenner’s Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. 531 duotone photographs

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