"A Vanished World", Roman Vishniac with a foreword by Elie Wiesel. New-York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. English.
Photographs from the Shtetl and from Jewish ghettoes in Romania, Russia and Hungary, between the years 1935-1938. With a foreword by the author Eli Wiesel. A short dedication, handwritten by Roman Vishniac in 1983, appears on the first page.
Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), a Jewish American photographer, born in Russia. Best known for his photographs capturing Jewish culture in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Joint financed his work as part of a fundraising drive, but Vishniac was personally attracted to the Shtetl and Jewish ghettoes and continued traveling throughout Europe years after the Joint discontinued their financial support. During those years he was often arrested by the police and was even suspected of being a spy since he was caught photographing. His book "A Vanished World", one of the first books which documented in photographs the culture of Eastern European Jews before the Holocaust.
[12], 180 pp, 30.5 cm. Good condition.