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