A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward, Alana Newhouse, Editor bilingual Hardcover 2008

Hardcover 2008

With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire

It can even double as a coloring book

the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward, Alana Newhouse, Editor bilingual Hardcover 2008The premiere national Jewish newspaper has opened its never before seen archives, revealing a photographic landscape of Jews in the twentieth century and beyond. This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the history one has learned to associate with the Jewish Daily Forward Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies along with gems no one would expect. The book also features essays by Leon Wieseltier, Roger Kahn, and