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Lots of Lehmans: The Family of Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers
Remembered by His Descendants
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Kenneth Libo
Foreword by Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. and William Lehman Bernhard
Afterword with an interview with June Bingham Birge by Kenneth Libo
The Center for Jewish History has broken new ground with this richly produced book, unique in concept, content, and format. With candor and wit, fifty-five descendants of Mayer Lehman—youngest of the three founding brothers of Lehman Brothers—vividly portray the German immigrant, his formidable wife Babette, and their seven colorful offspring. Four generations of Lehmans lay bare their family chronicle filled with details and eccentricities that are both poignant and entertaining.
Cloth $39.95 | 978-0-9792336-0-7
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A Community of Many Worlds
Arab Americans in New York City
The Museum of the City of New York
"This collection does a fine job documenting and elucidating the diverse abundance of Arabic cultural manifestations that reflect historic precedents, and are contributing toward hybridized world views. . . . The pieces are often personal and include multiple reminiscences of growing up Arab-American, yet strike a clear and instructive balance with sound scholarship and intellectual inquiry."
— Publishers Weekly
Cloth $29.95 | 0-8156-0739-3
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New York Jews and the Great Depression
Uncertain Promise
Beth S. Wenger
"A model for how to write social history that highlights the intersection of ethnicity, class, and gender. The analysis is smart, the prose lively, and the physical product strikingly elegant. Each chapter is a gem."
— American Jewish History
Paper $19.95 | 0-8156-0617-6
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The Red Heifer
A Novel
Leo Haber
"Move over Henry Roth. With Leo Haber's poignant, page-turning new novel, The Red Heifer, we may very well have the Call It Sleep of the 21st century. . . . Mr. Haber's storyline is enriched by scenes that echo or recast memorable biblical episodes; the knowing reader marvels at the author's sleight of hand. . . . [The book] is an entire miniature civilization limned with compassion, perception, and wit."
— The Forward
"An exciting story. . . . The novel is a literary rarity: both readable and a memorable work of art."
— The Jewish Standard
Cloth $24.95 | 0-8156-0692-3
Paper $19.95 | 0-8156-0836-5
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New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970
Eli Lederhendler
Winner of the 2001 Koret Jewish Book Award
for History and the 2002 Tuttleman Foundation
Book Award of Gratz College
"Lederhendler deftly captures Jewish ‘ethnic cosmopolitanism’ during the 1920s and 1930s as he parses the writings of secular Yiddish writers and New York Jewish intellectuals in the interwar period. He shows how the new writings of public intellectuals and Jewish theologians in the 1950s and 1960s reflected multiple fears for society and the individual, and how they presaged emergent group consciousness that exploded on the scene with black riots and black/Jewish tensions during the 1960s."
— Choice
Cloth $29.95 | 0-8156-0711-3
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Our Crowd
The Great Jewish Families of New York
Stephen Birmingham
"A fascinating and absorbing chapter of New York social and financial history."
— Louis Auchincloss
Paper $19.95 | 0-8156-0411-4
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Anything for a T-Shirt
Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World's Greatest Footrace
Ron Rubin
"The book traces Lebow's humble origins in Eastern Europe through his development into an international leader in sports. It chronicles the growth of the marathon into an event that commands the world's stage, and shows that this growth was largely due to Lebow's creativity and vision."
— New York Runner
Paper $19.95 | 0-8156-0806-3
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The American Marathon
Pamela Cooper
"Cooper has written the first book that digs below the surface of the Boston Marathon and New York City Marathon to explore the entire history of marathoning in the United States."
— Runner's World
Cloth $34.95 | 0-8156-0520-X
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New York Poems
D. H. Melhem
New York Poems is dedicated to "The City of New York: embattled, gallant, enduring" by celebrated poet D. H. Melhem, who calls the Upper West Side her "muse." Melhem's sharp eye looks at neighborhood struggles with blight and urban renewal (chastised as "Negro Removal"). She examines her city from the World Trade Center disaster to the present to the city's future.
Paper $16.95 | 0-8156-0813-6
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NYC: Life Going On
A Collection of Photographs Documenting NYC on 9/11/02
Produced by the Eddie Adams Workshop
Photography by the Eddie Adams Workshop Students
"Here, in brief, is life going on. Here is a generation of New Yorkers cutting still another template, one that's about resistance to doom and about getting on with it, in spite of everything. . . . They're too busy for terror.
. . . Too busy living. Welcome to New York."
—Pete Hamill, author of Forever: A Novel
Paper $24.95 | 0-8156-8138-0
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Life at the Dakota
New York's Most Unusual Address
Stephen Birmingham
"Mr. Birmingham makes it clear that living at the Dakota, from 1884 to the moment, was and remains one of the glories of living in New York."
— New York Times Book Review
Paper $19.95 | 0-8156-0338-X
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Dreaming of Columbus
A Boyhood in the Bronx
Michael Pearson
"Pearson’s stories . . . have about them not only the cherished patina of memory but also the wry recollection that the things we remember aren't always the way things were. . . . His language is sure and supple."
— Booklist
Cloth $24.95 | 0-8156-0561-7
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Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan’s Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, Second Edition
Ann L. Buttenwieser, Robert A. M. Stern
Paper $19.95s
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0-8156-2801-3
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North Star Country
Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom
Milton C. Sernett
"Drawing on evangelical religious commitment, the movement for the immediate abolition of slavery found some of its strongest backing here. Harriet Tubman, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Henry B. Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore D. Weld, Samuel J. May, William H. Seward, and most of all Frederick Douglass made their homes here. . . . The author's research is admirably wide-ranging. . . . He has produced a readable narrative of the course of abolition in one of its strongholds. General and academic collections, all levels."
— Choice
Cloth $49.95L | 0-8156-2914-1
Paper $19.95s | 0-8156-2915-X
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