The Face of Wisdom, Cracow, 1938.

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.117c

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1938

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Description

Elderly bearded man wearing a hat walks on the street in the snow. Another man passes beside him.

Text by Roman Vishniac in The Vanished World: A limited-edition portfolio published by Witkin-Berley Ltd.

This man was known, not only by his knowledge of the Talmud but in human affairs as well. And his neighbors came to him not only in religious matters but also in problems of daily life.

Image Courtesy of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley.

Dimensions

19 1/2 x 13 1/8"

Keywords

Vishniac

Subcollection

Pre-1933: Jewish Life in Europe before Holocaust

Recommended Citation

"The Face of Wisdom, Cracow, 1938." (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.117c.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1823