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The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure
Stan Mack
1999
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Stan Mack is a journalist and cartoonist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Providence. His comic Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies ran in the Village Voice for twenty years. Formerly the art director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack is the author of several young adult nonfiction books and children’s picture books.
Work, tradesmen, shops, the town is there
with old maids polished down by emptiness
on haberdashers’ threshold where the antique sun
brushes off jewels dusty with being looked at.
Dressed up for…
Illustration from the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish “sweatshop” poems, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs from the Ghetto). The illustrations in the deluxe book are in the art nouveau style…
This wall hanging by Saul Borisov depicts Adam and Eve, naked but for fig leaves, not separate beings but still attached to one another, possibly hiding from God after eating the fruit from the…