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brated photographer especially loved,
and one whose spontaneity and joy
he captured with particular poignan-
cy: children.
Vishniac, a Russian Jew, provided
an extraordinary record of the lives of
German and Eastern European Jews in
the years immediately preceding the
Holocaust. Between 1935 and 1938,
he explored the cities and villages of
Eastern Europe, capturing Jewish life
in the shtetls of Poland, Romania,
Russia and Hungary. Using a hidden
camera, he took 16,000 photographs,
many of which survived the war.
This volume features 70 pho-
tographs of children playing, study-
ing and living in a world that would
soon disappear. The photographs are
accompanied by a selection of nurs-
ery rhymes, songs, poems and chants
for children's games both in Yiddish
and English translation by Miriam
Hartman Flacks.
Photographs for the book were
selected by the photographer's daugh-
ter, Mara Vishniac Kohn. "We want
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first settlement on the southern tip of
Manhattan; the destruction wrought
by the Revolutionary War; the city's
emergence in the 19th century as the
nation's industrial center; the waves of
early 20th-century immigration that
transformed the city and the nation;
New York's transformation into the
first modern city; and its emergence as
the testing ground for popular culture.
Of the 2 million Jews who came to
America from Eastern Europe between
1881 and 1914, three-quarters settled
in New York, notes the book's narra-
tive. By 1910, Jews had become the
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Roman Vishniac Children ofa Vanished Wotld
to remember the children Roman
loved," she writes in the introduc-
tion. "Their images are surrounded
with the songs and rhymes that made
them smile. We want to look into
their eyes and see there the wonder,
the hope and the trust in a future
that they would not experience. We
think of them, we assure them of our
love and we cherish their memory"
Candle # 8
For Big Apple Devotees
New York: An Illustrated History, by
Ric Burns and James Sanders, with
Lisa Ades (Alfred A. Knopf; $60), is
the companion volume to the six-part
PBS television series on the Big Apple,
which aired last month.
The book covers nearly four cen-
turies of turbulent change and growth
in America's most exciting city.: the
largest single immigrant group in the
city, with more than 400,000 living
on the Lower East Side alone.
"Rivington Street was only a suburb of
Minsk," Alfred Kazin later remarked.
"I recall a large cool room ... and a
big class of bright-eyed Jewish children,
boys and girls," H. G Wells wrote in
1906 after a visit to the Educational
Alliance, in the heart of the Lower East
Side. "Some of them had been in
America a month, some much longer,
but here they were — under the aus-
pices of the wealthy Hebrews of New
York ...being Americanized."
This coffee-table size book brims
with hundreds of illustrations — pho-
tographs, paintings, lithographs, prints
and period maps — and features the
voices and stories of the men and
women, many of them Jewish, who
lived in and built the city.
Accompanying the narrative are
interviews with and essays by a group
of New York historians and writers.
This is a treat for anyone who
holds a special place in his or her heart
for the city that never sleeps. ❑
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