Echoes of Detroit
A 300 Year History
by Irwin J. Cohen
ISBN 0967757002
140 pages
8.5 x 11 paperback
$12.95 USD (free shipping in USA only)
This history of Detroit tells the story of the Motor City in engaging prose and over 150 vintage photos of Detroit. From the early Detroit history of its birth as a trading post for the French in 1701, through the Roaring Twenties, the industrial boom during and following World War II, the decline in the 1970s, the book ends with gradual birth of a new era of hope in the twenty-first century. Over 100 Detroit historic photos tell the story in pictures.

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Along with plenty of Detroit historical facts, the book is full of delightful anecdotes and fascinating statistics:

• the naming of Woodward Avenue
• the roots of the Lone Ranger
• Detroit’s meanest man
• the Detroit building that was named after a river in Maine
• the architecture of Albert Kahn
• the “Real McCoy”

The author is a Detroit native, baseball historian, and avid collector of Detroit memorabilia and Detroit memories.

Echoes of Detroit’s Jewish Communities
by Irwin J. Cohen
ISBN 0967757010
346 pages
8.5 x 11 paperback
$19.95 USD (free shipping in USA only)

This history of the Detroit Jewish community begins with the first Jewish immigrants to the Motor City, Detroit’s amazing growth during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the war years, and finally the Jewish movement to the Detroit’s northern suburbs in the late twentieth century. Over 400 photographs are found in these pages, many of them one-of-a-kind.

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The book features the Detroit Jewish schools, synagogues, neighborhoods, charities, and businesses that grew along with the city. But the Jewish people of Detroit are the true characters of this story with their vibrance and spirit. The Jewish Detroit book is a labor of love by the author, who has lived and worked in Detroit all his life.