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.
Review Quotes: "This isn't only a paean to the legendary Los Angeles bookstore, where browsing was a hermeneutical activity, but a eulogy to a father-and-son relationship and a map of how Jewish knowledge circulated in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Kudos to Laurence Roth for hearing the call of memory. Bookstores are where our minds feel grounded and our hearts find meaning."--Ilan Stavans "coeditor of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish"