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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9780520221871
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520221877
ISBN-13
9780520221871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
826591
Product Key Features
Book Title
Children of a Vanished World
Number of Pages
156 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Judaism / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Jewish
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Photography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-027866
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 Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
947/.0004924
Synopsis
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., Between 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.
LC Classification Number
99-27866
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