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Ms. Strongwater brings this world back to life through her art. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000033;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial;\" class=\"bk_anno\" face=\"arial\"\u003eYou will feel as if you can walk into these buildings, and you will recognize their relations in many of the synagogues we know today. The paintings in this collection have been created by carefully scrutinizing historical black and white photos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000033;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial;\" class=\"bk_anno\" face=\"arial\"\u003eWhere decisions have been made about colors, the artist has chosen to enhance the beauty of the building, while staying true to the material of the original. 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Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City. In Flash, we get a portrait not only of the man (both flawed and deeply talented, with generous appetites for publicity, women, and hot pastrami) but also of the fascinating time and place that he occupied.\\nFlash, we have an unprecedented and ultimately moving view of the man now regarded as an innovator and a pioneer, an artist as well as a newsman, whose photographs are among most powerful images of urban existence ever made.\\n\\n \"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":6145,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"14\":{\"1\":3,\"3\":1},\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\"\u003eThe first comprehensive biography of Weegee―photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker―from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,” claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. 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Through words and more than 300 exquisite photographs, Synagogues Without Jews tells the colorful histories of over thirty Jewish communities - in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, northern Italy, Greece, and the Czech and Slovak Republics - that thrived before World War II. It is filled with floor plans, elevations, full-color photographs, and descriptions of the synagogues that were the pride and joy of their congregations. And there are stories of people - Jews of the past who helped their communities flourish, and Jews of present who remain, safeguarding their beloved synagogues and passing their memories onto the next generation. 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However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. 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Among the last are poignant letters from Betty Scholem in Berlin, writing during the Nazi years to her son Gershom in Palestine. In between are accounts of a ninth-century Jewish merchant appointed by Charlemagne to a diplomatic mission to Baghdad, a thirteenth-century Jewish minnesinger, a seventeenth-century pogrom in Frankfurt in which gentiles helped to save their Jewish neighbors, and the nineteenth-century innovation of department stores, palaces of consumerism. The book tells a story―moving, terrifying, and exhilarating―that must be remembered.\\n \u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":6145,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"14\":{\"1\":3,\"3\":1},\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. 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Interpreting the paintings, and their reception in Gottlieb’s day and beyond, Mendelsohn touches on a number of key issues in modern Jewish history, among them identity, assimilation, acculturation, nationalism, the relationship between Jewry and European culture, and relations between Jews and non-Jews, particularly between Poles and Jews. Mendelsohn notes that Gottlieb “was an ideal subject for a historian of modern Jewish Eastern Europe with an interest in the visual dimension of Jewish culture.” Since the artist’s death in 1879, Polish nationalists, Jewish integrationists, Jewish nationalists, and finally the Israeli Jewish establishment, have laid claims to his art. 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