The following are selections from Shtetl in the Sun, a new collection of Andy Sweet’s documentation of the vanishing elderly Jewish communities of South Beach, including previously unseen work.

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All photos by Andy Sweet (South Beach, c. 1979), courtesy Letter16 Press. Click to enlarge.

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Excerpted from Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet’s South Beach 1977-1980, edited by Brett Sokol. Used with permission of Letter16 Press.

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