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Polyn : Jewish Life in the Old Country by Alter Kacyzne (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805050973

ISBN-139780805050974

eBay Product ID (ePID)1021923

Product Key Features

Book TitlePolyn : Jewish Life in the Old Country

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / Poland, Jewish

Publication Year1999

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorAlter Kacyzne

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight39.5 Oz

Item Length10.1 in

Item Width10.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-014178

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal943.8/004924

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisNever-before-published, luminous photographs of Polish Jewish life in the 1920s by an undiscovered master. In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was commissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, the 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 Ostrog and Brisk. His candid and intimate views of teeming village squares and rustic workshops, cattle markets and spinning wheels give us a privileged view of a world that is no more. For more than sixty years, Alter Kacyzne's Forverts photographs-the sole fragment of his vast archive to survive World War II-lay unseen. Now, for the first time, the work of this lost master is restored to the world in a volume of extraordinary poetic force. At once ter and humorous, Poyln tells the story of a way of life and recalls the warmth and spirit of a community on the edge of destruction. Poyln is sure to stand with Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World as a rare treasure, an indispensable portrait of a people.

LC Classification NumberDS135.P6K323 1999