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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.
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- PublisherFarrar. Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0713916354
- ISBN 13 9780713916355
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0713916354-2-3
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In a dark brown hardcover with gilt titles to spine. With an unclipped black dust jacket with grey and white titles to spine and front and a black and white photograph to front. Grey end papers. 192 pp. extensively illustrated in black and white. The book is in very good condition with just a trace of shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. There is light foxing to the top edge of the book, not affecting page faces, and very light tanning of the extremities of the pages, which are otherwise clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is also very good with just very light shelf-wear to the extremities, the front flap is creased and there is some tanning to the top of the flaps. Book weighs 2 kg., additional postage will be required. Seller Inventory # 910353
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second Printing. Quarto. 180 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed with some creasing along edges and a small patch of dampstaining to jacket verso at base of spine. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Seller Inventory # 12305
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Vishniac, Roman (illustrator). Reprint. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Illustrated with 180 remarkable photographs by the author, many full- page. 96 unnumbered leaves. Large square 4to, glossy brown boards (corners very slightly bumped). London: Allen Lane, (1984). Second printing of the English edition. Lengthy gift inscription in English & Hebrew on front endpaper, else a near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 300169
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