Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938.

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.117l

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1938

Files

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Description

A woman wearing a head covering sits in a chair in the street. Three men sit on the stairs behind her and one man leans on the railing. A man and a woman sit in the window frame behind them.

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

This place was made famous by the Gaon of Vilna, Elijah, who preached on these steps to the community two hundred years ago. At the time when I came, forty years ago, it still was a place where everybody gathered. It was a place for everybody to come to speak and ask advice.

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

Dimensions

15 1/4 x 15 1/8"

Keywords

Vishniac

Subcollection

Pre-1933: Jewish Life in Europe before Holocaust

Recommended Citation

"Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938." (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.117l.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1832