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

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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

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(VISHNIAC, ROMAN).

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

Hundreds of photographic illustrated plates by Roman Vishniac and numerous other photographers, depicting Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe just prior to the Holocaust. Text and captions in English and Yiddish. pp. 575, (8). Original gilt-lettered red buckram with pictorial paper label (after Yudovin) on front cover. Oblong 4to.

New York: The Forward Association 1947

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

“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).