The old country / Abraham Shulman ; foreword by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shulman, Abraham.

Contributor:

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.

Dodd, Margaret.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Pictorial works.

Jews.

Europe, Eastern--Pictorial works.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Pictorial works.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 210 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1974]

Summary:

In the 1920s, the New York Yiddish newspaper, The Forward, printed a weekly selection of photographs illustrating Jewish life in Eastern Europe over the previous half century. The aim of the pictures was to show immigrant Jews the life that they had left behind. From the archives of The Forward, Abraham Shulman, a native of Poland and a notable Yiddish writer of short stories and essays, selected hundreds of photographs to show what East European Jewish life was actually like. It was not all persecution, poverty, and heartbreak--there were many light and joyous aspects: pictures of children at play, adults at a village party, and family groups dressed in their Sabbath best to pose for a formal photograph all demonstrate that.--From publisher description.

Contents:

The shtetl

Children

Women

Hasidim

Work

Religion

Secularization

A family album.

Notes:

"Designed by Margaret Dodd."

Majority of the photos. were previously published in the supplement of The Jewish Daily Forward.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Contains:

Jewish daily forward.

ISBN:

0684140179

9780684140179

OCLC:

1129989