Poyln

Kacyzne, Alter

ISBN 10: 0805068295 ISBN 13: 9780805068290

Verlag: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2001

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Book by Alter Kacyzne

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"An unforgettable testimony..."Poyln" is brilliantly evocative of a significant slice of Jewish reality."--Abraham Brumberg, "Los Angeles Times Book Review""Exquisitely detailed, haunting portraits of a lost world"--Susan Shapiro, N"ew York Times Book Review"

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In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was commissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in the "old country". Kacyzne's assignment became a ten-year journey across "Poyln", as Poland's three million Yiddish-speaking Jews called their home, from the crowded ghettos of Warsaw and Krakow to the remote villages of Otwock and Kazimierz. Candid and intimate, tender and humorous, Kacyzne's portraits - of teeming village squares and primitive workshops, cattle markets and spinning wheels, prayer groups and summer camps - tell the story of a way of life that is no more. For the last sixty years, Kacyzne's Forverts photographs - the sole fragment of his vast archive to survive World War II - lay unseen. In this volume the lost work of this master is restored to the world in a volume of extraordinary force and beauty.

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• Verlag: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0805068295
• ISBN 13: 9780805068290
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192