Di Farshvundene Velt / The Vanished World. Edited by Raphael Abramovitch.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 270

(VISHNIAC, ROMAN).

Di Farshvundene Velt / The Vanished World. Edited by Raphael Abramovitch.

Hundreds of photographic illustrated plates by Roman Vishniac and many other photographers, depicting Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe just prior to the Holocaust. Text and captions in English and Yiddish. he Forward Association, New York 1947. pp. 575, (9). Few stains. Original gilt-lettered red buckram with pictorial paper label (after Solomon Yudovin) on front cover, rubbed. Oblong 4to.

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $225

“In presenting this book to our readers we intend to give them the picture of the Jewish world in Eastern Europe as it existed during the 1920’s and 1930’s, previous to the Second World War. This world does not exist any longer. It is a vanished world.” (Introduction).