En Yisrael
Footprint · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/footprints/footprint/29464
From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- Henry Bookbinding Co. (Viewer)
- Date
- 1980-01-21
- Copy
- 2659-9457-12527
- Evidence type
- Owner signature/bookplate in extant copy
- Notes
Please note that Naftali Herz Levi Rofe printed both a large edition of the En Yaakov in 1740 and also a small 17 cm. edition. Also note the following: In 1980, according to the census taken that year, there were 1,500 bookbinders in New York. A great number of them plied the tra…
Please note that Naftali Herz Levi Rofe printed both a large edition of the En Yaakov in 1740 and also a small 17 cm. edition. Also note the following: In 1980, according to the census taken that year, there were 1,500 bookbinders in New York. A great number of them plied the trade in downtown Manhattan, on the Lower East Side, among the garment workers, delicatessens and dive bars. Of that proud and once ample contingent—the binders of the Lower East Side—now there is only Henry. Henry is not his given legal name. It’s the name of the street where he works and has worked for most of his adult life. At some point, the shop became known as Henry Bookbinding, and he as Henry. It’s that kind of pragmatic thinking and come-what-may attitude, perhaps, that keeps business humming--https://lithub.com/the-last-bookbinder-on-the-lower-east-side/- Percent complete
- 81
- Place
- New York, New York, United States
- Evidence location
- Jewish Theological Seminary
- Title
- En Yisrael
- Verified
- false
- Viewer
- Henry Bookbinding Co.
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/29464/
- dcterms:date
- January 21, 1980
- rdfs:label
- En Yisrael