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

Newhouse, Alana (Editor); Pollack, Chana (Archivist)

ISBN 10: 0393062694 / ISBN 13: 9780393062694

Published by Forward Books/W. W. Norton, 2007

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First edition 2007, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition as new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ as new, bright and shiny, no tears no chips, no edgewear, price not clipped. 4to, 352 pages, illustrated throughout with historic photographs. Heavy book will require additional postage for international ordes. Seller Inventory # 004604

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Living Lens : Photographs of Jewish Life ...

Publisher: Forward Books/W. W. Norton

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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

About the Author:

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