Weegee and Naked City by Anthony Lee and Richard Meyer non-media Hayyim Schauss shows how these

Hayyim Schauss shows how these holidays evolved in meaning and importance

supplementary texts presenting many of the most significant and relevant aspects of Yiddish culture

thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities

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Using their stories to consider the social

Weegee and Naked City by Anthony Lee and Richard Meyer non-media Hayyim Schauss shows how theseArthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked Citywith its lurid tabloid style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlifechanged prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, two art historians, Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer, bring markedly different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book. Meyer looks carefully at Weegee's pictures before