cover image The Jewish American Family Album

The Jewish American Family Album

Dorothy Hoobler. Oxford University Press, USA, $19.95 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-19-509935-5

The American Family Album series delivers its inaugural volume, the Jewish American Family Album by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. Arranged in a magazine-like format, brief essays, sidebars and black-and-white photographs chronicle Jewish experience in America from the arrival of 23 Jews in New Amsterdam in 1654 until the present day (Oxford, $19.95, all ages ISBN 0-19-509935-4 Nov.).