Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side, by Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum Sale Books " The earliest Yiddish American

" The earliest Yiddish American writers were intent on sharing with their readers”most of them unsophisticated in literary taste”observations and interpretations of common men and women

has an influential radiance still

On Manhattan's Lower East Side

presents Marisa Scheinfeld's photographs of abandoned sites where resorts

Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side, by Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum Sale Books " The earliest Yiddish AmericanListen to our podcast with authors Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum here: Throughout its history, New Yorks Lower East Side has reflected the cultural demographics of the city. In 1890, Jacob Riis published How The Other Half Lives, a photographic indictment that exposed the deplorable and dangerous living and working conditions of newly arrived immigrants who had come to America seeking a better life. Faced with circumstances that in many cases were