Auction 9
Judaica - Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Books, Chabad, Menorahs, Silver Items, Art, Bezalel.
By Kidmat Dena
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Jun 23, 2020
כורש 8, ירושלים, Israel
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LOT 186:
The Vanished World - an Impressive Album of the Jewry of Eastern Europe - 1947
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Buyer's Premium: 19%
VAT: 17%
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The Vanished World - an Impressive Album of the Jewry of Eastern Europe - 1947
The Vanished World - an impressive album of the Jewry of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Published by Forverts, New York, 1947. Yiddish and English.
The earliest and most comprehensive photographic history of Jewish life before the Holocaust. Includes over 500 photographs of towns and the daily lives of Jews in Eastern Europe. Most of the pictures were taken by the well-known Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac.
A unique history book about the Jews of Eastern Europe: Poland, the USSR, the Baltic countries, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, which was published approximately two years after the edn of World War II. The book, which was edited by Raphael Abramowitz, commemorates a vanished world. A historical introduction on the Jews of Europe since the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, colorful maps and especially, rare ohotographs of Jews in towns and cities.
Inside cover that is attached to the papers had detached. Can be fixed with glue. Cover is a bit dusty.
