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

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$1,000

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author

VISHNIAC, ROMAN.

printer

Schocken

Place

New York

Publication

1947

Description

FIRST EDITION. Featuring 31 black-and-white photographs. Boldly signed by Roman Vishniac on half-title.

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. 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.

pp. 17, (1 blank); ff. 31. Three leaves with some wear. Original boards with pictorial dust jacket, slightly torn at extremities. Sm. folio.

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