A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward, Alana Newhouse, Editor bilingual and wagon drivers

and wagon drivers

Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor

With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire

Astonished by each new complication

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 and wagon driversThe 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