Unpacking My Father's Bookstore by Laurence Roth - 9781978836600

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore by Laurence Roth - 9781978836600

Rutgers University Press

Unpacking My Father's BookstoreAuthor(s): Laurence Roth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978836600, 978-1978836600\nSynopsis\nUnpacking My Fathers 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 fathers 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 familys 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, Unpackin.

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