Students discussing a Torah text in their cheder. Photographer: Roman Vishniac, Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1938
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Roman Vishniac
A photographer born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1897. As a young man, he traveled to the West, initially to Berlin and after that to New York. Most of his fame is attributed to a series of dramatic photographs about a vanishing world: the world of Eastern European Jews in the 1930’s. His photographs were taken clandestinely while exploring Jewish towns and streets dressed as a textile trader.
