Di Farshvundene Velt [The Vanished World], edited by Rafael Abramovitch. New York: Forward Association, 1947. Yiddish and English. ?The book contains photographs of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, including many photographs of their synagogues, streets, stores, and people. The photographs in the book are divided into two sections: Jewish towns and Jewish people. The photographs were sourced from the collection of the Joint, YIVO and the photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac. 
In addition, the book contains three maps; a map presenting the territory occupied by the Nazis in Eastern Europe; a map of Eastern Europe marking the cities that are documented in the photographs of the book; map of the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw, marking the ghetto.?Title page with an illustration by Shlomo Yudovin. Red cloth binding with a paper label on the front binding showing the same illustration as the title page. ?575, [8] pp + [3] tables (maps), approx. 19.5x26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Small tears to edges of several leaves. Tears and minor blemishes to margins of the title page. Several leaves are loose. Paper strips in the joining of the endpaper leaves. Restorations to the inside margins of several leaves. Slightly faded binding.