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Scribe, N.Y.C.
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Commissioned to document people in their workplaces by a magazine, Edelstein was inspired to launch a project of photographing workers all over the world. Part of his series focused on shopkeepers…

Contributor:

Seymour Edelstein

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Date:

1988

Subjects:

Photography, Portrait, Profession, Writing, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph depicting man in kippah, gloves, and glasses and holding a pen examining a Torah scroll upon which sits two tefillin boxes.
Unemployed Yiddish Writers
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The writers of the radical press (also) have the full right to life, to be free, and to seek their fortune in—a bread line.

Contributor:

Der Tunkeler

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Poverty, Economic life, Cities, Writing, Modernity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Music
Drawing of men, wearing hats, standing in a line. Yiddish text appears above and below them.
The Forward Building
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Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…

Contributor:

George Boehm

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Modernism, Cities, Writing, Assimilation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Façade of building with arched entryways and columns with ornate capitals.
Mid-Century: An Anthology of Jewish Life and Culture in Our Times
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In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…

Contributor:

Harold U. Ribalow

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Date:

1955

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Writing, Art, Cities

Categories:

Literature, Anthologies
Brivenshteler: A Letter to a Friend in Russia about America
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Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…

Contributor:

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1895–1905

Subjects:

Migration, Writing, Cities, Diaspora

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Among the Wild Things
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In the past few years, I have become increasingly interested in Sendak’s work, reading his books for my own pleasure as well as for the amusement of my…

Contributor:

Nat Hentoff

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Date:

1966

Subjects:

Writing, Migration, Cities, Children, Memory

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Journalism