Unpacking My Father's Bookstore

Laurence Roth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3660-0 (ISBN)

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Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of the premier Jewish bookstores in the United States. Blending critical analysis with a personal account of growing up in his father’s bookstore, and connecting both to larger forces that helped shape Jewish and American book retailing in the twentieth-century, Laurence Roth crafts a richly felt narrative about his family’s Jewish experience in America. It is a reminder, too, that while most independent bookstores like J. Roth Bookseller disappear from history, these retailers often had outsized effects on their communities. Breaking with conventional modes of scholarship, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore tells a unique and troubled story that rarely gets told, one that is both personal and analytical, theoretical but rooted in the everyday.

LAURENCE ROTH is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and director of the Jewish & Israel Studies Program and The Build Collaborative at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories (Rutgers University Press, 2003), and coeditor, with Nadia Valman, of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures.

Contents

Sotheby’s, Manhattan, 1985
1. Grand Opening (objects)
2. The Inventory (commerce)
3. The Storefront (place)
Greystone Park, New Jersey, 1935
4. The Second Store (gender)
5. The Sales Floor (collection)
U.S.S.R., 1976
6. The Book-Lined Wall (design)
7. The Shipping Room (sound)
8. Collection’s End (networks)
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, 2021

Locations and Dates in Operation
Acknowledgements
Works Cited and Consulted

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	7 bw, 5 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9788-3660-0 / 1978836600
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3660-0 / 9781978836600
Zustand	Neuware