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A Vanished World
by Vishniac, Roman; Elie Wiesel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374282471
- ISBN 13
- 9780374282479
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-011: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. 1983. Illustrated with 179 Black and White Plates. Third Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. ; 0.5 x 11.75 x 11.5 Inches; 179 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67855
- Title
- A Vanished World
- Author
- Vishniac, Roman; Elie Wiesel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374282471
- ISBN 13
- 9780374282479
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- E-011
- Date Published
- 1983
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