A Vanished World, - a photographic book Showing the Eastern European Jewish world in the pre-Holocaust generation by the renowned photographer Roman Vishiniac. New York 1999.
Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), one of the greatest Jewish photographers of the 20th century. An American Jewish photographer of Russian descent who was become famous thanks to the authentic photographs of the Jews culture in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust - the Jewish shtetl and ghettos, portraits of well-known personalities, rabbis and rebbes, and anonymous Jewish figures representing an entire generation. The book before us is most famous and was first published in 1983 and was one of the first books to document the culture of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust.
180 p. 30x31 cm. Very good condition.
