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To Give Them Light: The Legacy of Roman Vishniac

by Roman Vishniac & Marion Wiesel

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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Roman Vishniac's poignant and beautiful images of Jewish life before the war form an unforgettable document of a lost civilization, depicting eight different communities, each of which is described in a short text enhanced by passages from Vishniac's diaries. The pictures are warm, peaceful, and uttterly heartbreaking.--The Boston Globe. 141 photos.

Provenance

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology.

  • Lost civilizations and anomalous archaeology

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “lost civilizations”. Retained metadata contains “lost civilization” in the description.

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

1993-03-01Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglish—Unknown

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