Booklist
"The Jewish Daily Forward was founded in 1897. Published in Yiddish, by the 1920s it was selling around 250,000 copies a day. When it moved in 1974 from its historic building on New York's Lower East Side to East Thirty-third Street, its 40,000-strong photography collection was transferred to a storage room. The selection of photos published here chronicles the story of the newspaper and more than a century of Jewish life: scenes of Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies, Jewish peddlers and merchants, village beauty contests, and matchmakers. Settings were not only New York but also Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Cracow, and rural areas of the Carpathian region of eastern Europe. Shots of such celebrated figures as Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Al Jolson, Paul Muni, Emma Goldman, and Jan Pierce are included. The 531 duotones are augmented by essays by such noted historians as Deborah Lipstadt, and an introduction by Pete Hamill. An illustrious photographic journey of Jewish life.--George Cohen "