A Vanished World
by Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0374520232
- ISBN 13
- 9780374520236
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye. Record # 361982
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361982
- Title
- A Vanished World
- Author
- Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374520232
- ISBN 13
- 9780374520236
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Photography, Documentary, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.