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A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
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A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Newhouse, Alana; Hamill, Pete, introduction

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This extraordinary volume features the finest photographic account of Jewish life in America. The premiere national Jewish newspaper, "Forward," has opened up its never-before-seen archives, revealing a landscape of Jews in the 20th century and beyond.

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New York, New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2007. Book. New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto. New York: Norton, 2007. First edition, stated first printing. Cloth binding, 352 pp. illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. The premiere national Jewish newspaper Forverts, first published in 1897, here mines its rarely seen archives to reveal a pageant of international Jewish life in 531 black and white photographs. From shtetl beauty contests and matchmakers caught mid-deal in the Old Country to the Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, and labor rallies of the New World, this is a kaleidoscopic panorama of the 20th century. Here are diaspora communities and Palestine during the British mandate; images of the Holocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement, and the emergence of Jewish suburbia; and personalities from Paul Muni and Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen and Madonna. New in new dust jacket..
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  • Title A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
  • Author Newhouse, Alana; Hamill, Pete, introduction
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, New York
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 020385
  • ISBN 9780393062694 / 0393062694
  • Weight 4.49 lbs (2.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.32 x 9.46 x 1.07 in (31.29 x 24.03 x 2.72 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - United States - Social conditions, Immigrants - New York (State) - New York -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006032478
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.892

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2007, Page 14
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2007, Page 73

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