"The Dairy Restaurant" von Ben Katchor ist eine faszinierende Erkundung der Geschichte und Kultur der Milchspeiserestaurants, die einst ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des jüdischen Lebens in Amerika waren. Das Buch kombiniert historische...

"Twenty-five years on, [Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant."-The Guardian Cheap Novelties is an early testament to...

In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere...