Poyln by Alter Kacyzne

Poyln by Alter Kacyzne

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.

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9780805068290
ISBN 10	0805068295
Titre	Poyln
Auteur	Alter Kacyzne
État	Non disponible
Éditeur	Henry Holt & Company Inc
Année de publication	2001-09-01
Nombre de pages	192
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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