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Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac
explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life
in the Jewish "shtetlekh" of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary,
communities that even then seemed threatened--not by destruction
and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a
hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able
to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his
father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the
publication of "Children of a Vanished World," seventy of those
photographs are available, thirty-six for the first time. The book
is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose
mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy:
children.
Selected and edited by the photographer's daughter, Mara Vishniac
Kohn, and translator and coeditor Miriam Hartman Flacks, these
images show children playing, children studying, children in the
midst of a world that was about to disappear. They capture the
daily life of their subjects, at once ordinary and extraordinary.
The photographs are accompanied by a selection of nursery rhymes,
songs, poems, and chants for children's games in both Yiddish and
English translation. Thanks to Vishniac's visual artistry and the
editors' choice of traditional Yiddish verses, a part of this
wonderful culture can be preserved for future generations.
Earlier books of Roman Vishniac's photographs include "To Give Them
Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac" (1995), "A Vanished World"
(1983), and "Polish Jews" (1947).
A major exhibition titled "Children of a Vanished World:
Photographs byRoman Vishniac" is scheduled at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage in New York. The show will open to the public on March 7
and run through June 4, 2000.
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