Jews: A Peoples History of the Lower East Side

Volume II
1)) 2)) 3)) 4)) 5)) 6)) 7)) Roots Shops, Gardens, Buildings Colorful Characters Poetry and Prose Music Performance Dance

Volume III
1)) 2)) 3)) 4)) 5)) 6)) 7)) Illicit Business Politics Art Theater Film Photography

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Volume II
1)) Roots 1 Weiner, 9 pages (5,042 words) Seeking Refuge from Lifes Dissonance: The Disparate Echoes of a Fathers and Sons Experiences on the Lower East Side, Decades Apart 2 Roberta Faith Levine, 3 pages (1,162 words) My Father 3 Sheila Alson with Susan L. Yung, 5 pages (2,123 words) Excerpts from The Ring 4 Pearl Gluck, 7 pages (4,030 words) The Betsy Ross of Avenue C [on her Grandmother] 5 Steven Lack, 3 pages (1,821 words) Lower East Side 6 David Rosenberg, 6 pages (2,904 words) The Holocaust Behind the Counter: B&H Dairy, L&G Luncheonette, and the Myth of the East Village 7 Jennifer Blowdryer, 3 pages (1,465 words) A Brief Family History of the Non Gadget Oriented 8 Suzannah B Troy, 3 pages (1,573 words)

Stream of Consciousness, My Grandfather, 92 Reasons I Love the Lower Eastside 9 Tsaurah Litzky, 5 pages (2,386 words) The People Who Made Me A Love Story Of The Jewish Lower East Side 10 Rodney Sur, 4 pages (1,250 words) 11 Zia Ziprin, 19 pages (7,500 words) 2)) Shops, Gardens, Buildings 1 Roberta Faith Levine, 5 pages (2,795 words) LES Tour from My Memory 2 Julian Voloj, 9 pages (4,874 words) A Walk Through the Jewish Lower East Side 3 Bob Holman, 2 pages (440 words) Inside the Synagogue is Mars. Inside Mars Is Your Apartment. A poem for the opening of Angel Orensanzs installation Flying NASA Lab 4 Gerrick Beck, 8 pages (3,870 words) Gardenopolis 5 Rob Hollander, 7 pages (3,080 words) Architecture of the Jewish Ghetto 6 Steve Zeitlin, 4 pages (2,070 words) Sharing the Lower East Side [on City Lore] 7 Chris Stein, 2 pages (1,022 words) Style and Lower East Side 3)) Colorful Characters 1 Ann Binlot, 5 pages (2,474 words) A-Ron 2 Anne Apparu, 2 pages (888 words) Word to Maman Le Poeme 3 Amy Shapiro, 3 pages (1,183 words) Repairing the Lower East Side

4 Deborah Freeman, 22 pages (11,650 words) A Couple of Hard Bop Holdouts, East of Eden 4)) Poetry and Prose 1 Steve Dalachinsky, Jim Feast and Yuko Otomo, 31 pages (12,506 words) Tuli Kupferberg: The Meaning of the Jew in the Dictionary of Anarchism 2 Jim Feast, 19 pages (9,123 words) Morris Rosenfeld and H. Leivick: Jewish Titans at War on the Lower East Side 3 Sparrow, 3 pages (1,094 words) The Jews and the Unbearables; The Unbearables and the Jews 4 Sabina Theijs, 8 pages (3,264 words) Allen Ginsbergs Ideal Society 5 Eliot Katz, 4 pages (2,316 words) Planet News and Futuristic Greetings from the Lower East Side: Recalling Allen Ginsberg 6 Tom Savage, 3 pages (2,056 words) My Allen Ginsberg 7 Jerome Poynton, 10 pages (4,097 words) Sister and Brother from Savannah, Georgia: Helen Oliver Adelson and Edgar Oliver 8 Romy Ashby, edited by Foxy Kidd, 6 pages (3,396 words) Interview with Edgar Oliver 9 Sanders, 9 pages (1,475 words) Yiddish Speaking Socialists of the Lower East Side 10 Steve Dalachinsky, 9 pages (4,377 words) The Sorrows of Young Worthless A Conversation with Myself or: An Abbreviated History of a Young Jewish Dropouts Adventures in the Lower East Side 11 Steve Dalachinsky, 1 page (136 words) The First Cemetery of Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (1656-1833) 12 Bob Holman, 1 page (242 words)

A Jew in New York 13 Erik La Prade, 5 pages (2,517 words) On the Streets of the Lower East Side: An Interview with Harry Nudel 14 Harry Nudel, 1 page (106 words) DD..Death of the Deli 15 Harry Nudel, 1 page (316 words) The Last Yid Poets 16 Valery Oisteanu, 3 pages (804 words) The Lion of the Beats, a sitting meditation for Allen Ginsberg 17 Ron Kolm with a note by Jim Feast, 6 pages (3,244 words) Hal Sirowitz: Last of the Lower East Side Poets 18 Richard Kostenlanetz, 1 page (image) Second Avenue/Sixth Street/Third Avenue 19 Richard Kostenlanetz, 19 pages (7,976 words) Categories: A Self-Retrospective on a Different Kind of Literary Life Around the Lower East Side 20 Lionel Ziprin, 3 pages (737 words) Math 21 Valery Oisteanu, 5 pages (2,512 words) Strolling with the Non-Kosher Jewish Beats on the Loisaida 22 Alexander Rubchenko, 12 pages (6,286 words) An Interview with Leonard Abrams 23 Nico Ponce de Leon Dios, 8 pages (4,149 words) On Ira Cohen 24 Alan Kaufman, 4 pages (2,229 words) The Ghost of Abraham Cahan Meets The Rebels of Spoken Word 25 Romy Ashby, 4 pages (2,173 words) Marty Matz, Poet 26 Jim Feast, 6 pages (3,310 words) Barney Rosset: Outsider on the Inside 27 Miriam Stanley on Yiddest Poets, 7 pages (1,750 words)

5)) Music 1 Sara Levin, 5 pages (2,302 words) Frank London 2 John Zorn, 5 pages (2,629 words) Musings on the East Village 3 Ronen Landa, 3 pages (1,275 words) John Zorn: Sanctifying the New 4 Bobby Finberg, 9 pages (4,383 words) Three Kings and Uncle Charlie [on Klezmer] 5 Elliot Sharp, 3 pages (1,840 words) Near & Far 6 Mary Rinebold, 12 pages (5,822 words) Reflections [on Phillip Glass] 7 Steven Wishnia, 4 pages (2,116 words) Wie Bist Die Gewesen Vor Punk-Rock? 8 Avram Fefer, 12 pages (7,273 words) L.E.S. is Less 9 Gary Lucas, 6 pages (3,386 words) East Side, Far Side All Around the Sound; aka Its Not Where Youre Frum, Its Where Youre At 10 Steven Lee Beeber, 9 pages (3,976 words) Immigrants [on Punk] 11 Handsome Dick Manitoba, 4 pages (2,019 words) Feast 6)) Performance Art 1 Michael Carter, 5 pages (2,593 words) Howard Seligman, Covert Agent of Cultural Subversion (Hillel Feival) 2 Bonnie Sue Stein, 3 pages (1,600 words) Basha Detroit: A 28-year history of a Jewess in NY- 1979-2007

3 Roberta Levine, 8 pages (4,205 words) A Brief History of a Performer 7)) Dance 1 Jordan Levin, 7 pages (4,386 words) The Village 2 Misha Gutkin, 10 pages (6,226 words) An Autobiographical Sketch: Who needs a blowjob? _____________________________________________________________________________ _

Volume III
1)) Illicit 1 Eric Miller, 14 pages (5,461 words) Some Meanings of Mj in Lower East Side Jewish Culture 2 David H Katz, 52 pages (28,014 words) Jews With Guns: The Jewish Gangster On The Lower East Side 3 Ben Essex, 18 pages (10,636 words) My Name is Ben 4 Ron Ross, 4 pages (2,024 words) The Peddler from Norfolk Street 2)) Business 1 Economy Candy, 4 pages (1,000 words) 2 Kaplan, Lawyer, 3 pages (2,000 words) 3 Deborah Fries, 4 pages (2,089 words) Transformations [on art gallery management] 4 Dr. Ores, doctor, 12 pages (3,000 words)

5 Rabbi, Gerson, 5 pages (2,750 words) 6 Jennifer Blowdryer, 7 pages (4,099 words) How I Came to Be Here [on Sion Misrahi] 7 Slumlord, Dave, 5 pages (3,500 words) 8 Keith Staskiewicz, 6 pages (3,211 words) Alan Dell [Katz Deli] 3)) Politics 1 Malay Kanuga, 14 pages (7,401 words) The Many Recurring Dreams of Reason: the Motherfuckers and the Art of Rebellion 2 Tsaurah Litzky, 5 pages (2,257 words) Emma Goldman First Slum Goddess of the Lower East Side 3 Elissa Sampson, 11 pages (3,933 words) Yiddishe Bread & Roses Stories of the Jewish Left on the Lower East Side 4 Romy Ashby, edited by Foxy Kidd, 6 pages (2,794 words) Interview with Carole Ramer [on Abbie Hoffman] 5 Brandt, 6 pages (3,072 words) Frances Goldin and Miriam Friedlander [on housing] 4)) Art 1 Merry Fortune with John Farris, 11 pages (5,929 words) Shalom Tomas Neuman - Celebration Of A FusionArtist 2 Robert C Morgan, 4 pages (2,040 words) Shalom Amerika: Humanism in Exile 3 Sharon Newfeld, 13 pages (6,989 words) High Art in the Lower East Side: The Early Days 4 Jerome Poynton, 1 page (288 words) June Leaf, Hands at War 5 B.J. De Guzman, 3 pages (1,600 words)

On Steven Marcus 6 Paul Buhle, 10 pages (5,466 words) From The Masses to World War 3 Illustrated: New York art as political street commentary; or, Seth Tobocman and the Lower East Side 7 Seth Tobocman, 10 pages (5,644 words) This Neo-Expressionist -Comic-Book -Artist So Far 8 Clayton Patterson, 24 pages (13,536 words) Boris Lurie 9 Staar on Lurie, 8 pages (4,000 words) 10 Liljefors on Lurie, 6 pages (750 words) 11 Romy Ashby & Foxy Kidd, 5 pages (2,591 words) Interview with Tasha Robbins 12 Kathleen Osborn, 7 pages (4,206 words) Claw Money [on Claudia] 13 Ilka Scobie, 2 pages (592 words) Martha Diamond, Artist and Bowery Pioneer 14 Efroim Snyder, 2 pages (1,195 words) Jewish History and the LES 15 Sampson on art in the Stanton St. shul, 1 page (400 words) 16 Mary Blair Taylor, 3 pages (1,676 words) Lady Island; Agathe Snow 17 Donna Cameron, 4 pages (2,271 words) Allure: The Circle Bait of Angel Orensanz 18 Julius Klien, 6 pages (2,819 words) His Son was a Disappointment 19 Eddy Portnoy, edited by Paul Buhle, 18 pages (3,726 words) Cartoon Jews on the Lower East Side 5)) Theater 1 Caraid OBrien, 15 pages (5,651 words)

Under the World with Sholem Asch (and a one act adaptation of his play The Dead Man) 2 Eve Packer, 7 pages (3,074 words) Cafe Royal 3 Tom Walker, 3 pages (1,307 words) Some Thoughts on The Lower East Side and the Jewish Community, Julian Beck and The Living Theatre, and Me 4 Judith Malina, 3 pages (1,383 words) Memories of a German Jew on the Lower East Side 5 Jim Feast and Steve Dalachinsky, 21 pages (9,639 words) Judith Malina and the Miracle 6 Gerrick Beck, 5 pages (2,245 words) Return of the Theatre 6)) Film 1 Margot Niederland with Merry Fortune, 5 pages (2,897 words) Was 2 Rick Wirick, 6 pages (3,108 words) The Dream Life: The Lower East Side Jews In Hollywood 3 Ken Jacobs, 5 pages (2,839 words) The Given Word 4 Jacob Burckhardt, 2 pages (1,042 words) On Being a Jew On The Lower East Side 5 Mark Kron, 11 pages (6,461 words) My East Village 7)) Photography 1 Jerome Poynton, edited by Loretta Farb, 5 pages (1,976 words) Robert Frank, Gunslinger with Camera 2 Richard Sandler, 4 pages (2,045 words) Untitled

3 Rik Little, 3 pages (1,376 words) Maurice Narcis East Village Jewish Artist 4 Sid Kaplan, 1 page (424 words) NY Photographer