MAYA BENTON

ROMAN VISHNIAC REDISCOVERED

International Center of Photography | New York

DelMonico Books • Prestel I Munich London New York ONTENTS

director's foreword

Mark Lubell

preface 14 RECONSIDERING ROMAN VISHNIAC Mara Vishmac Kohn

17 Vishniac in , 2015 INTRODUCTION Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Maya Benton 23 A Different Kind ofHolocaust Photograph Judith Cohen

31 What Vishniac Saw: Another Look

Laura Wexler

40 , 1920-38

43 The Strolling Observer Ute Eskildsen

51 Russian Jews and Photography Michael Berkowitz

55 Russian Emigre in Berlin David Shneer

61 Jewish Life in Marion Kaplan

65 Remembering Berlin Mara Vishniac Kohn Interview 106 EASTERN EUROPE, CA. 1935-38 272 AMERICA, 1941-90

109 Vishniac on Assignment 275 Roman Vishniac's New York Maya Benton Deborah Dash Moore

121 A Melamed Lights His Cigarette: 283 The Jewish Child in New York Vishniac's Carpathian Outtakes Hasia Diner J. Hoberman

289 Vishniac's Chinatown

129 Vishniac and the Press Yue Ma and Herb Tam

Eddy Portnoy 293 From the to Burlesque

135 Behold a Vanished World Eddy Portnoy Jeffrey Shandler 297 The Curious Microscopist

142 PLATES Norman Barker

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190 EXILE AND RETURN TO EUROPE,

1938-40, AND 1947

354 GLOSSARY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES 193 A Radically Different Style: Jewish Pioneers

in the Dutch Polder 357 MAP: VISHNIAC IN EASTERN EUROPE

Bernadette van Woerkom

358 CHRONOLOGY

199 Taking a Closer Look at Vishniac in Prewar France

Laura Hobson Faure 370 BIBLIOGRAPHY

205 Vishniac and the Surviving Remnant 378 contributors Atina Grossmann and Avinoam Patt

380 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 211 Lives Reborn: Vishniac's Photographs ofDisplaced Persons Camps in France Daniella Doron

213 A Landscape ofRuins: Roman Vishniac's

Return to Postwar Berlin

Steven Hoelscher

223 PLATES