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

from: W. W. Norton

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.89240747
EAN: 9780393062694
ISBN: 0393062694
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 23, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 459774
Studio: W. W. Norton



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Product Description:
The finest photographic account of Jewish life in America.

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 World and Frederic Brenner's Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. 531 duotone photographs.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Seeing Jewish history as it was
A Living Lens is a wonderful collection of photographs that not only demonstrate everyday life of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great Collection
This collection and commentary was great....and more than met our expectations. It sits now on our ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Jewish Insight
Beautiful book, well written. A book for anyone to share with their children to teach them an important ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Genetic Memories
As the grandchild of Polish / Ukraine immigrants who read the Forvitz, this book lovingly captures the memories ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Outstanding
Earlier this year, I had participated in a tour, including the old Forward Building in Lower Manhattan, with our ... Read More

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