{"product_id":"children-of-a-vanished-world-9780520221871","title":"Children of a Vanished World","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBetween 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish \u003ci\u003eshtetlekh\u003c\/i\u003e of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened—not by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of \u003ci\u003eChildren of a Vanished World\u003c\/i\u003e, seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six for the first time. The book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected and edited by the photographer's daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, and translator and coeditor Miriam Hartman Flacks, these images show children playing, children studying, children in the midst of a world that was about to disappear. They capture the daily life of their subjects, at once ordinary and extraordinary. The photographs are accompanied by a selection of nursery rhymes, songs, poems, and chants for children's games in both Yiddish and English translation. Thanks to Vishniac's visual artistry and the editors' choice of traditional Yiddish verses, a part of this wonderful culture can be preserved for future generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarlier books of Roman Vishniac's photographs include \u003ci\u003eTo Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eA Vanished World\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), and \u003ci\u003ePolish Jews\u003c\/i\u003e (1947).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major exhibition titled \"Children of a Vanished World: Photographs byRoman Vishniac\" is scheduled at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. The show will open to the public on March 7 and run through June 4, 2000.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Roman Vishniac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960391733366,"sku":"9780520221871","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/children-of-a-vanished-world-9780520221871","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}