Roman Vishniac - A Vanished World - 1983

Roman Vishniac – A Vanished World (First Edition, 1983)
Author / Photographer: Roman Vishniac Title: A Vanished World Foreword: Elie Wiesel (Nobel Prize) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York Year of publication: 1983 (First edition) ISBN: 0-374-28247-1 Binding and format: Hardcover with editorial cloth binding and illustrated dust jacket in color/monochrome. Pages: Bound volume with numerous black-and-white photographic plates (duotone) of the highest typographic quality. Recognitions: Award-winning work of the prestigious Carey-Thomas Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Description of the work: An extraordinary and moving photographic volume published in 1983, which collects a selection of about 200 photographs taken clandestinely by Roman Vishniac between 1934 and 1939 in Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Lithuania). Of the approximately 16,000 images captured clandestinely to immortalize the life, dignity, and spirituality of Jewish communities in the shtetls and in the ghettos before the tragedy of the Shoah, only 2,000 survived. This book represents a historical, human, and artistic document of immense value, praised by Edward Steichen as