How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis Discount and a fascinating look at

and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world

Noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by showcasing his most famous work along­side unpublished and rare materials from the family archives

and Adrienne Rich

The volume contains some 60 Yiddish essays

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis Discount and a fascinating look atJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed