Book summaryMedia reviews"Between 1935 and 1939, photographer Roman Vishniac traveled 'from Bratislava to Mukachevo and the Carpathians...through the distinct and irreplaceable Jewish communities of Poland and Lithuania...before they were torn from history by a tempest of fire and ashes.' Vishniac recorded with his Leica 'what turned out to be the last years, the last months of Jewish life in Eastern Europe.' Published posthumously, 'To Give Them Light' captures the faces of this lost way of life." |
To Give Them Light The Legacy of Roman VishniacFirst Edition
Book desription: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Large hardcover, 160 pages in fine condition with fine dustjacket. Personal inscription to original owner written in book. 1st edition, 1st printing. Edited by Marion Wiesel. Vishniac came back from his trips to Eastern Europe in the 1930s with a collection of photographs that has become an important historical document, for it gives a last minute look at the human beings he photographed kudt before the fury of the Nazi brutality exterminated them. The vibrant, intimate world of his photos contain ordinary everyday people doing ordinary things all with a story to be told. Nearly 140 photographs as well as brief excerpts from Vishniac's unpublished diaries. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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