Katz Jcc Jewish Film Festival - Vishniac

Schedule Of Events 

2:00PM : Vishniac

2023 - 1 h 30 mins - Laura Bialis - US - English

A difficult and flamboyant character, Roman Vishniac is best known for having traversed Eastern Europe with a camera from 1935 through 1938. On assignment for the American Joint Distribution Committee to document Jewish life in Eastern Europe, the purpose of the photographs was to raise funds for impoverished Jewish communities. Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. Few could have predicted that less than a decade later, these communities would be wiped out, and that Vishniac’s photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world.

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