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November 26, 2005
A lost world
Photographs of Berlin in the 1930s by Roman Vishniac are now on display at the city's Jewish Museum.
The Berlin Vishniac first captures is a warm and lively place, with bustling streets, loving families and cheery bars and shops. Having fled the Soviet Union, he was clearly fond of his adopted city.
An on-line sampling of images from A Vanished World, a collection of his works, includes "the only known photograph of the contemplation of the Cabala prior to the Holocaust". That would be the actual Kabbalah rather than the celebrity kind.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 26, 2005 08:07 AM
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