Children of a Vanished World
by Vishniac, Roman; Kohn, Mara Vishniac, and Flacks, Miriam Hartman (Edited by)
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- 9780520221871
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Cloth, xv, 141 pages, illustrations, music; 24 cm. S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Includes texts of Yiddish songs with English translations by Miriam Hartman Flacks. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "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 by Roman 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." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Children of a Vanished World
- Author
- Vishniac, Roman; Kohn, Mara Vishniac, and Flacks, Miriam Hartman (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520221877
- ISBN 13
- 9780520221871
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography / Individual Photographer; Genre & Subject / Religious / Judaica; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Children;
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