The Vanished World — Book of Photographs – New York, 1947

Di Farshvundene Velt [The Vanished World], edited by Rafael Abramovitch. New York: Forward Association, 1947. Yiddish and English.
The defining photographic record of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe lost or decimated during the Holocaust. With over 500 photographs documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe before WW2, this book was an early post-war depiction of communities that were gone forever, along with their synagogues, streets, stores, and people. The photographs were sourced from the collection of the Joint, YIVO and the photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac.
Title page with an illustration by Shlomo Yudovin. Red cloth binding with a paper label showing the same illustration as the title page.
575, [8] pp, 19.5X26.5 cm. Good condition. Binding slightly loose and worn. Sporadic stains. Slight tears to the margins of some leaves. Restored open tears to title page (not affecting text or illustration).