Two large photographs by Roman Vishniac [1897-1990] - the well-known European Jewry photographer before the Holocaust.
* A Jewish child in the Warsaw ghetto, photographed in 1938. 24x18 cm.
* The Jewish street in the ghetto: 24x31 cm.
The photographs are both pasted on a thick and large Wooden board for display and preservation. 50x36 cm. Good condition.
Vishniac, a native of the town of Pavlovsk on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gained international recognition for his work as a Jewish shtetl and ghetto photographer in the 1930s. As the waves of anti-Semitism began to rise to new heights in Germany, Vishniac embarked on his famous journey to Eastern Europe and photographed the face of Jewish society in all its nuances in mountain villages and urban ghettos, rabbis, scholars, and followers of various Hasiduyot. For about four years he traveled from Berlin to various remote areas of Europe and took thousands of photos. Vishniac's photographs, which reflect Jewish life as it was, considered to this day, the most comprehensive and high-quality documentation of European Jewry in the pre-Holocaust generation. In his famous book "A Vanished World", published in 1983, Vishniac brought some of his work.
Provenance: The photographs came from "Moreshet" Museum - the Mordechai Anielewicz Testimony House.
