Unpacking My Father's Bookstore
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardcover - With printed dust jacket
- ISBN 9781978836600
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 bw, 5 color images 700
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Long description:
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.
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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
