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

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $450

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author

VISHNIAC, ROMAN.

printer

Schocken

Place

New York

Publication

1947

Description

FIRST EDITION. 31 black-and-white photographs

summary

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.

pp. 17, (1 blank); ff. 31. Boards with original pictorial dust jacket, slightly torn. Sm. folio

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