Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record. With an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 313

VISHNIAC, ROMAN.

Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record. With an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel

FIRST EDITION. 31 black-and-white photographs pp. 17, (1 blank); ff. 31. Cloth with original pictorial dust jacket, slightly torn. Sm. folio

New York: Schocken 1947

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $300

A most moving depiction of vibrant Jewish life before the Holocaust in such centers as Cracow, Vilna and Warsaw, Poland, as well as Munkacevo (Munkatch), Carpathian Ruthenia. The introductory essay by Dr. A.J. Heschel, in effect an elegy for vanquished East European Jewry, has become a classic. The 31 photos included in this volume were selected from the two thousand taken by Vishniac on the eve of the Holocaust in 1938. Roman Vishniac was born in St. Petersburg in 1898 and died in New York in 1990