Lot 112
"The Ghetto Lane in Wilna" – Moshe Vorobeichic – Yiddish and German Edition, 1931
Idishe Gas in Vilne / Ein Ghetto im Osten (Wilna) [The Ghetto Lane in Wilna], published by Dr. Emil Schaeffer. Zurich-Leipzig: Orell Füssli, 1931. Yiddish and German.
55 photographs by Moshe Vorobeichic (Raviv), documenting life in the Jewish ghetto in Vilnius, using the interplay of light and shadow, geometric figures, and low-angle photography. Introduction by Zalman Shneur.
Ownership stamps and inscriptions from Estonia; detailed ownership inscription documenting the provenance of this copy of the book, which was in the possession of the University of Tartu, Estonia, at the time of the Nazi occupation, before returning to its rightful owner "who was arrested by the Soviet occupiers in the summer of 1941 […] and managed to return from the Soviet death camp."
Enclosed are two photographs (dated 1966-67) of a street in Vilnius.
7 pp., 64 photographic pp., 8 pp., 19 cm. Good condition. Few stains and minor blemishes. Minor stains to binding.
