Item #51674 POLISH JEWS: A PICTORIAL RECORD. Roman Vishniac.

POLISH JEWS: A PICTORIAL RECORD. Introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel.

NY: Schocken Books, (1947). Vishniac, Roman. First edition. 4to., 18 pp., plus 31 full-page b&w photos. A very good copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that is rubbed at the hinges, has a few short closed tears, and is lacking two one inch chips along the spine. Item #51674

With the assault on the Jews of Eastern Europe already starting, Visniak traveled from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathian Mountains, photographing the Jewish communities in 1938, barely a year before the catastrophic onslaught of the Nazi reign of terror and annihilation.

Price: $300.00

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