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Title: A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac, Elie Wiesel ISBN: 0-374-52023-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Alive, at Most, in Memory
Comment: One look at the pages of this wrenching book will tell the story. Roman Vishniac, secretly, in some cases, shot thousands of pictures of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe, shortly before they were swallowed up by the Holocaust.
Young, old, in-between are shown going about their ordinary lives, some already paying the price of the prevalent Eastern European anti-Semitism, virtually oblivious to what was coming their way.
You can't look at these pictures and not shudder: certainly no one in these pictures can still be alive, and it's not just because of the passage of time. Most of the people photographed here lived in the smaller villages, segregated in many cases from the Gentiles, wearing clothes that quickly and easily identified them to their destroyers.
Vishniac shot an estimated 16,000 pictures, but managed to get only about 2,000 out when he fled to the United States in 1940. We should be grateful for what he's given us, and mourn all that was lost.
Rating: 5
Summary: A stunning historical record
Comment: I was amazed at the quality of the images and the sensitive approach to what has become an amazing record of that,which many of us could only imagine from verbal accounts.It is without doubt the best photographic recording of a society which was to be brutally decimated. Vishniac's photographic artistry in my mind are on a par with Cartier Bresson whom I greatly admire. Thanks to the publisher for printing such a wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Take A Journey into a Vanished World
Comment: Open this book and you will enter a world of the vanished, but not vanquished. Roman Vishniac's stunning black and white photographs of the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe will surely enter your heart, as they have mine. The simple, sometimes stark compositions are primarily of the faces of Jews long lost in the flames of the Holocaust. Most of the photographs have a brief explanatory comment that gives them context. Vishniac takes us into the tiny basement apartments of Warsaw's Jewish porters, the logging villages of Carpathian Ruthenia, and the narrow streets of Vilna. I found myself drawn into that world where Jews worked, studied, walked on their way to and from synagogues or markets, plowed fields and played in the streets. My own family originated in that world, and I thank Roman Vishniac for giving me a glimpse of it. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Children of a Vanished World (S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies) by Mara Vishniac Kohn ISBN: 0520221877 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country by Alter Kacyzne, Marek Web, Sulamita Kacyzne-Reale, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research ISBN: 0805050973 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Yiddishland by Gerard Silvain, Henri Minczeles, Donna Wiemann ISBN: 1584230185 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Ann Weiss, James E. Young, Leon Wieseltier ISBN: 0393016706 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac by Roman Vishniac, Marion Wiesel ISBN: 0671638726 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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