Photographs from Roman Vishniac, A Vanished World (New York, 1983) 

Note: The numbers correspond to photograph numbers in the volume which is on reserve at McKeldin Library. Please note that only a few of the photos we want you to look at are reproduced here, and our scans are not of very high quality. Please consult the hardcover book directly.

Study Hint: Try to determine how the photographer chose and framed his subject. What point was the photographer making? Is the title of the picture an accurate representation of the contents?

9.  Talmud students of Mukachevo, 1938.

12. A rabbi.  Warsaw, 1938.

13. Readers scrutinize the latest newspapers.   Warsaw, 1934.

34. This man lost his legs in a Russian pogrom thirty years before.  Warsaw, 1937.

41.  Basement lodgings and workshop.   Warsaw, 1939.

43.  The corner kitchen of a one-room apartment.  Warsaw, 1936.

62.  Member of a porters' artel.  Warsaw, 1938.

111.  An open sewer in the Jewish quarter of Lublin, 1939.