American photographer Judy Gelles has published three books: When We Were Ten (1997), Florida Family Portrait (2002), and Beach Boxes (2004). Her works are found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other collections. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1997). She lives in Philadelphia.
It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with…
Sheet music for “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars,” a comic song about a Jewish businessman on his deathbed trying to collect money owed him. “Yiddish dialect songs” were popular performance pieces…
Theda Bara (1885–1955) was born Theodosia Burr Goodman in Cincinnati. After completing public high school, Goodman moved to New York to become an actress. In advertisements for the Fox Film Company’s…