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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forwarddi Alana Newhouse
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Alana Newhouse’s beautiful collection of archival photographs from the Jewish Daily Forward, compiled with the aid of Chana Pollack, selectively reveals over a century of Jewish life in America. The photos juxtapose the holy and the profane, the tragic and the celebratory, the profound and the mundane, in the lives of ordinary Jews. They tell much about how Jews immersed themselves in America, both as a minority and as an assimilated group who influenced America as much as being influenced by American culture. There are many thoughtful essays accompanying these photos that reflect key aspects of 20th century Jewish lifestyles. The Lower East Side, the Labor movement, the entertainment industry – including the Yiddish Theater, the Holocaust, Israel, and a changing Jewish identity are among the many great signposts that are depicted here. Nathan Glazer, Alan Dershowitz, Roger Kahn, and Deborah Lipstadt are only a few of the many essayists that accompany these portraits. The “Forverts” mirrored the past and sought to unify Jewish life in the present. I think you will enjoy browsing through this lens. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The finest photographic account of Jewish life inAmerica. This extraordinary volume features classic photographs ofthe history one has learned to associate with theForward?Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater,labor rallies?along with gems no one would expect. Thepremiere national Jewish newspaper has opened up itsnever-before-seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape ofJews in the twentieth century and beyond. From shtetl beautycontests and matchmakers caught mid-deal to the streets of the NewWorld; from diaspora communities and mandate Palestine to theHolocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement, and the emergence of Jewishsuburbia; from Paul Muni and Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen andMadonna?this book is a kaleidoscopic array of modern Jewishlife. Original essays are included by leading intellectuals andhistorians, including Leon Wieseltier, J. Hoberman, Roger Kahn, andDeborah E. Lipstadt, plus an introduction by Pete Hamill. A greatgift book in the tradition of Roman Vishniac's A VanishedWorld and Frederic Brenner's Diaspora: Homelands inExile. 531 duotone photographs. 'Not only an amazing book, but an invaluable artifact and a work ofart.'?Jonathan Safran Foer Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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