Shtetl in the sun : Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977-1980 / foreward by Brett Sokol ; "The Brightest Still The Fleetest" by Lauren Groff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweet, Andy, 1953-1982, photographer.

Contributor:

Sokol, Brett, writer of foreword.

Groff, Lauren, writer of supplementary textual content.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.)--Pictorial works.

South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.).

Florida--Miami Beach--South Beach.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

120 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977-1980

Place of Publication:

[Miami, Florida] : Letter16 Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Forget the jokes about late '70s South Beach being the Yiddish-speaking section of “God's Waiting Room”; yes, upwards of 20,000 elderly Jews made up nearly half of its population in those days - all crammed into an area of barely two square miles like a modern-day shtetl, the small, tightly knit Eastern European villages that defined so much of pre-World War II Jewry. But these New York transplants and Holocaust survivors all still had plenty of living, laughing and loving to do, as strikingly portrayed in Shtetl in the Sun, which features previously unseen photographs documenting South Beach's once-thriving and now-vanished Jewish world - a project that American photographer Andy Sweet (1953-82) began in 1977 after receiving his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a driving passion until his tragic death"--Publisher's description.

Notes:

Place of publication taken from publisher's website, viewed on February 19, 2019.

Foreword misspelled as forward on title page.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0989381188

9780989381185

OCLC:

1057783464