Author Events and Book Groups
Book Launch
A Living Lens:
A First Peak Into Never-Before-Seen Archives
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 2 pm
Booksigning to follow
$12 | $10 members | $8 students
Call 312.322.1743 or email rsvp@spertus.edu
For the first time in its 110-year history, the archives of the Jewish Daily Forward were opened to create this newly released photographic chronicle of Jewish life. The Forward's Samuel Norich shares images (and the stories behind them) from Lower East Side pushcarts, a shtetl beauty contest, and labor rallies to unexpected gems such as Harry Truman's haberdashery, Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi explaining Kabbalah to the Dalai Lama, and a New Orleans synagogue flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
Samuel Norich is executive director of the Forward Association, and publisher of the Forward and the Forverts. He currently serves as vice president of Ameinu (formerly the Labor Zionist Alliance) and on the boards of the American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters Museum, the Jewish Labor Committee, and the Claims Conference. He is a graduate of Columbia University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the University of Wisconsin.