Poyln
Poyln
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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. This is the story of a way of life that is no more.
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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 | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780805068290 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805068295 |
| Title | Poyln |
| Author | Alter Kacyzne |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Year published | 2001-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |