Dr Philip Friedman (5 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Essays on Jewish Life and Thought: Presented in Honor of Salo Wittmayer Baron. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. cover creased, binding very good, 198 pgs., indexed, pages clean,; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall AC5.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Oblong quarto. [21] leafs (text), 104 leaves (photographic plates), [15] leaves (Explanatory notes to the photographs). Original black paper wrappers. Considered to be one of the single most important documentary photo books documenting the Holocaust ever published, this book became the defining collection of photographic images from the period. Illustrated with 252 b/w photographic reproductions documenting the debasement and destruction of European Jewry, with pictures of cities, ghettos and the camps. This multilingual photographic album was published in Poland a few months after the end of World War II when relatively little was known on the magnitude of the genocide perpetrated upon the European Jews. In addition to a short introduction, the 252 photographs contain shocking footage from the Jewish settlements at the onset of German occupation, the ghettos into which they were later crowded, and finally, photographs of the atrocities committed in the forced labor camps and the extermination camps. Another section of the book is dedicated to the Jewish partisan movements. The photographs were mostly taken as mementos by German soldiers, and are still as shocking today as they were in 1945. Text in Polish, Russian, English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew. Light wear along edges and moderate creasing on front wrapper. Back cover age-toned with light staining. Light Foxing to the first few leaves, with sporadic minor foxing to the few leaves throughout. Most pages, including text and images are quite clean. Gutter of interior front cover reinforced with tape along the gutter. Edges of Book block foxed. Book block tight. Protected in modern mylar.…