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Title: Children of a Vanished World by Mara Vishniac Kohn, Miriam Hartman Flacks ISBN: 0-520-22187-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: I am an amateur photographer. 90% of good photography is in finding the right subject. These photos are stirring.
Rating: 5
Summary: HAUNTING IMAGES OF INNOCENTS AND INNOCENCE DESTROYED
Comment: This is a powerful book. In its pages we find starkly beautiful black and white photographs of children laughing, crying, playing, studying, working, in the course of their daily life... unaware of the horrific nightmare that will overtake them soon and destroy their world.
The children's eyes look at you with all the innocent curiousity and wonder of eternal, universal childhood. You look again and apprehension grips you: in a few short years after being photographed, the future of many of these children will be brutally terminated in an unmarked mass grave or a crematorium. The poignancy of this harsh reality is driven home when you read editor Mara Vishniac Kohn's dramatic description of her father's desperate, futile efforts to use his photographs as a means of arousing the conscience of the world and inspiring action to save these children and their families. We learn that Roman Vishniac sent these photos to the White House, only to recieve a perfunctory note thanking him for "the excellent pictures you sent the President."
I must express my heartfelt compliments and appreciation to the editors, Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Hartman Flacks, for the way in which they have presented these precious images-- accompanying them with the lyrics of appropriate Yiddish children's songs, in the original Yiddish and English transliteration and translation, rather than the standard dry caption text. I am especially grateful to the editors for including the music and annotation for these wonderful songs.
This book belongs in every home and library.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will touch your heart
Comment: This book moved me a great deal. The black and white images convey such innocence in the children. The simplicity of the beautifully produced photographs juxtaposed with children's songs and rhymes (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English) gives the impression of viewing the images in a gallery. The photographs, the narrative, and the publication itself are of very fine quality. And the message is unforgettable.
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Title: A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac ISBN: 0374520232 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country by Alter Kacyzne, Marek Web, Sulamita Kacyzne-Reale, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research ISBN: 0805050973 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Yiddishland by Gerard Silvain, Henri Minczeles, Donna Wiemann ISBN: 1584230185 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: A Day of Pleasure : Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by Roman Vishniac, Isaac Bashevis Singer ISBN: 0374416966 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Ann Weiss, James E. Young, Leon Wieseltier ISBN: 0393016706 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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