Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature

Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community

charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts

with albums on Elektra

in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history

Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute—are among the film’s highlights

Glass Plates of Lublin Dybbuk Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literaturePublished by our own White Goat Press, the large format, hardcover book includes hundreds of stunning photographs made from glass plates unearthed from a trash pile in a tenement house in a former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. From the dirty and sometimes broken tiles emerge the faces of Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young couples flirting, workers, athletes, dignitaries in tails, and anonymous people who posed for a camera long ago,