A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac First Edition 1983 Coffee Table Book

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A beautifully composed 180 page coffee table book by Roman Vishniac
“A Vanished World” with a foreword by Elie Wiesel- … Read more A beautifully composed 180 page coffee table book by Roman Vishniac
“A Vanished World” with a foreword by Elie Wiesel- First edition 1983.

“A Vanished World is the first book to offer a comprehensive selection of Roman Vishniac's celebrated photographs of the Jews of Eastern Europe. Taken between 1934 and 1939, as Vish-niac explored cities and villages, these photographs preserve for posterity unforgettable images of Jewish life.
Of the 16,000 photographs he managed to take —secretly and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to rescue only 2,000. Some of the negatives were sewn into his clothing.”

"Vishniac came back from his trips to Eastern Europe in the nineteen-thirties with a collection of photographs that has become an important part of history.
The resulting photographs are among photography's finest documents of a time and place” See less