BOOKS & OTHER RESOURCES

The following books feature photographs by N. Jay Jaffee:

Abramovitch, Ilana and Sean Galvin, eds. Jews of Brooklyn. Boston, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2002.

Acton, David. A History of Photography at Notre Dame: Twentieth Century. Giles, Ltd, 2019. 

Cohn, Anna and Lucinda Leach, eds. Generations: A Family Album. New York: Pantheon Books/Smithsonian Institution, 1987.

Davis, Keith, ed. American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.

Davis, Keith, ed. The Life and Work of Sid Grossman. Steidl and Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2016.

Eastman Kodak Company. The New Joy of Photography. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1987.

Eastman Kodak Company. Photographing Your Baby. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1985.

Frederickson, Tom, Claire Cass, and Stephen Daiter. This Was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War. Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001.

Klaus, Marshall and Phyllis. The Amazing Newborn. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1985; reprinted by Perseus Books, 2000.

Klein, Mason and Catherine Evans. The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

Moore, Deborah Dash. Jewish New York. NYU Press, 2017.

Moore, Deborah Dash. Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Mid-Century New York: Cornell University Press, 2023.

Perry, Rachel Berensen. The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light. Indiana University Press, 2018. (See also article about the book in “Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History,” Indiana Historical Press, Fall 2018)

Powell, Richard J., Virginia Mecklenburg, and Theresa Slowik. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond. Skira Rizzoli, 2012.

Rock, Howard B and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Willensky, Elliot. When Brooklyn Was the World. New York: Harmony Books, 1986.

Other Resources

“Blake Avenue Market” East New York Stories (website)

Deli Man (documentary film), directed by Erik Greenberg Anjou, 2014.

Genzlinger, Neil. “Muriel Manings: Dancer in a Politically Charged Era, Dies at 95.” The New York Times, November 6, 2018.

“In Memoriam” by Julia Van Haaften. This essay, by the Curator of Photography at the New York Public Library, was written for the N. Jay Jaffee memorial service at the Heckscher Museum in 1999.

“A History of Photography/Focus on N. Jay Jaffee,” Course by Professor Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College and the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012)

“Past and Present New York through a Comparative Study of Photography and Poetry,” Course by Jane K Marshall, Yale University, New Haven, CT (1981)