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Children of a Vanished World by Roman Vishniac (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520221877
ISBN-139780520221871
eBay Product ID (ePID)826591
Product Key Features
Book TitleChildren of a Vanished World
Number of Pages156 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicJudaism / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Jewish
Publication Year1999
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Social Science, Photography, History
AuthorRoman Vishniac
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-027866
Reviews"Wie in den Vorjahren bleibt es beim Gesamturteil in den früheren Besprechungen der Sammlung: ein wichtiges Arbeitsmittel für den Praktiker (nicht nur, aber vor allem) in den neuen Bundesländern."Hermann Weber in: Landes- und Kommunalverwaltung 9/2008 "[...] macht sich die Sammlung zunehmend unentbehrlich [...]"Herbert Günther in: Staatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 47/2007
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal947/.0004924
SynopsisBetween 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac captured Jewish life in the cities and villages of Eastern Europe. His daughter now offers his last-minute look at a people just before the fury of Nazi brutality exterminated them. 70 duotones., Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened--not by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World , seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six for the first time. The book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children. Selected and edited by the photographer's daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, and translator and coeditor Miriam Hartman Flacks, these images show children playing, children studying, children in the midst of a world that was about to disappear. They capture the daily life of their subjects, at once ordinary and extraordinary. The photographs are accompanied by a selection of nursery rhymes, songs, poems, and chants for children's games in both Yiddish and English translation. Thanks to Vishniac's visual artistry and the editors' choice of traditional Yiddish verses, a part of this wonderful culture can be preserved for future generations. Earlier books of Roman Vishniac's photographs include To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac (1995), A Vanished World (1983), and Polish Jews (1947). A major exhibition titled "Children of a Vanished World: Photographs byRoman Vishniac" is scheduled at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. The show will open to the public on March 7 and run through June 4, 2000.
LC Classification Number99-27866
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