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Vishniac, Roman. Roman Vishniac: Children of a Vanished World.

Vishniac, Roman. Roman Vishniac: Children of a Vanished World.

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University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-22187-7. [Photographs of the Polish Jews just before the Holocaust. [Includes Yiddish songs with translations by Miriam Hartman Flacks and memoir by Vishniac's daughter Mara Vishniac Kohn. While living in Berlin in the 1930s, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) was commissioned by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to make photographs of impoverished Jews in Central and Eastern Europe that could be used to promote charitable donations.  About 2,000 of an estimated 16,000 negatives survived World War II.]  Cloth, 1st printing. protected dust jacket. Issued at $29.95.  Another copy, same except ex-library with usual evidence otherwise fine. (Note: reflections in image of cover.)

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