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The glass plates of Lublin : found photographs of a lost Jewish world / Yiddish Book Center ; editors Lisa Newman, Piotr Nazaruk, Aaron Lansky

Nazaruk, Piotr [Herausgeber] ; Newman, Lisa [Herausgeber] ; Lansky, Aaron,i1955- [Herausgeber]

National Yiddish Book Center [Herausgebendes Organ]

Amherst, Massachusetts : White Goat Press, January 2022

[136] Seiten ; 24,8 x 29,7 cm

First White Goat Press hardcover edition

"A new publication from White Goat Press with the Grodzka Gate Theatre Centre, Lublin, Poland" --- Publisher's Website

979-8-98520-692-0

 

Lublin  Alltag  Juden  Fotografie  Geschichte 1913-1930  f Bildband  

The glass plates of Lublin" features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. Taken between 1913 and 1930, they capture the teeming life of Lublin before the war, at a time when Jews composed a third of the city’s population. The images include Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young lovers, workers, athletes, and everyday people who posed for a camera long ago never dreaming that their portraits would one day be of interest to anyone. Unearthed in 2010, the plates have been restored and are now exhibited at the Grodzka Gate–NN Theatre Centre in Lublin, where curator Piotr Nazaruk and his staff continue to work assiduously to identify their subjects and solve the mystery of the photographer who took them.