RARE album published two years after the end of WW2 to commemorate the lost Jewish life in eastern Europe and the Balkan. The album contains 530 b&w photographs of the populace and surroundings of Jewish neighborhoods and settlements prior to the holocaust, introduction and some text describing the places of Jewish habitation captured on pictures. Introduction and image captions in English and Yiddish. A great deal of the photographs were taken by the photographer Roman Vishniak and first published in this book. 265x200mm. 575 pages [+8]. Red cloth oblong Hardcover with woodcut on front and gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Rebound with original cover. Cover and spine dirty, slightly worn and stained. Cover corners bumped. Cover corners and spine edges tattered. Spine rubbed and yellowing. Spine gilt peeled. Previous owner`s small stamp on front whitepage. Some page edges tattered with no or slight damage to plates. Index page edges tattered and slightly missing with damage to two words of the text. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare photographic documentation of the lost world of Jewish Europe is partly in fair and mostly in good condition. In accordance with the condition of this rare and valuable book, we offer it for a bargain price!