Gorgeous picture book Di farshvundene velt—The Vanished World documenting the pre-Holocaust Jewish world of Eastern Europe. 540 pictures of villages and everyday Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Published by Forverts (The Forward), New York, 1947.
575, [7] pages: illustrations, maps, portraits on chrome paper; 20×26 cm. English and Yiddish.
Rare, unique book about the Jews in Eastern Europe: Poland, USSR, Baltic countries, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, published about two years after the war. The book attempts to memorialize the glory of the vanished world, with a historic introduction regarding European Jewry from the Middle Ages through World War II, colored maps, and primarily rare photos of Jews in villages and cities. The first section of the book is divided geographically, and the second according to subject (work, children, education, etc.).
Original, red cloth binding with gold embossing. Very fine condition.