12 X 12 INCHES \/ 120 PAGES, HARDCOVER, MINT CONDITION IN NEW DUST JACKET , Third Printing, edition of 2,500 copies, text by Lauren Groff<\/p>\n
Forget the jokes about late \u201870s South Beach being the Yiddish-speaking section of \u201cGod\u2019s Waiting Room\u201d; yes, upwards of 20,000 elderly Jews made up nearly half of its population in those days \u2014 all crammed into an area of barely two square miles like a modern-day shtetl, the small, tightly knit Eastern European villages that defined so much of pre-World War II Jewry. But these New York transplants and Holocaust survivors all still had plenty of living, laughing and loving to do, as strikingly portrayed in Shtetl in the Sun, which features previously unseen photographs documenting South Beach\u2019s once-thriving and now-vanished Jewish world \u2014 a project that American photographer Andy Sweet (1953\u201382) began in 1977 after receiving his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a driving passion until his tragic death.<\/p>\n
Sweet\u2019s photos capture this community\u2019s daily rhythms in all their beach-strolling, cafeteria-noshing and klezmer-dancing glory. \u201cThey were strong, humorous, and beautiful images,\u201d fellow photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who worked closely with Sweet, remarked after his passing. \u201cHe may have been younger, but I considered him every bit an equal.\u201d The book includes a foreword by Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol and an introductory essay by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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