This pictorial history of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s before the Holocaust, shows the stories of individuals, their increasing poverty, sad wisdom and enduring love in the years leading up to World War II.
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This pictorial history of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s before the Holocaust, shows the stories of individuals, their increasing poverty, sad wisdom and enduring love in the years leading up to World War II.
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Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $18.59, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $19.99, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Diamond rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Add this copy of A Vanished World (Paperback) to cart. $24.33, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Good. Good condition. (Jews, Eastern Europe, pictorial works) [ISBN 0374282471] A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $27.95, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good. Size: 11x0x11; [The Jews of Eastern Europe] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some toning to jacket. Pages unmarked. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $30.84, fair condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. (jews, pictorial works, eastern europe) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $35.00, good condition, Sold by h&hbooks24 rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $39.00, very good condition, Sold by Gian Luigi Fine Books, Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albany, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $39.95, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 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.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $40.00, like new condition, Sold by Always Superior Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Farrar Straus and Giroux.
Add this copy of A Vanished World to cart. $41.00, good condition, Sold by True Oak Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
highly emotional and soulful. I love those chidren and those elders and men that have lived so poorly and with such dignity. Wonderful photographs
katyc
Jun 21, 2007
A Priceless record
This is one of the most moving books of any kind that I've ever seen, a priceless visual record of a world that no longer exists, thanks to the Nazis and their brutally efficient Holocaust. It's a world of extreme poverty--but lit from within by the extraordinary faith and devotion of the Jews who inhabited the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the years just before World War II. The photographer Roman Vishniac wandered through these hamlets taking many thousands of photographs (mostly against the inhabitants' wills), only two thousand of which was he able to smuggle out of Europe. Even without our knowledge of what fate awaited these holy innocents, there is a profound melancholy, an aching sorrow in their faces, which must haunt anyone fortunate enough to leaf through these pages. This is a precious--a holy book.
