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

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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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. Boards with original pictorial dust jacket, slightly torn. Sm. folio

New York: Schocken 1947

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $450

A depiction of vibrant Jewish life in the years immediately prior to the Holocaust in such Polish centers as Cracow, Vilna and Warsaw; as well as Munkacevo (Munkatsch), Carpathian Ruthenia. The moving introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel is in affect, an elegy for vanquished East European Jewry.