Top photo: Judith Cohen (Photos by Amy Matathias)
A group of 30, including Rabbi Ben Shull, gathered in Tikvat Israel’s Flax Library to thank Elizabeth Levine Steel for her donation to the synagogue of a first edition of A Vanished World The Photographs of Roman Vishniac. The event on Sunday morning (11/20) was held to observe Jewish Book Month. The guest speaker, Judith Cohen, chief acquisitions curator and head of photo archives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, spoke on the importance of Vishniac’s work, shared photos that he took and detailed the history behind the photos and the man. The donated first edition of A Vanished World will be on display in the glass-enclosed case in the lobby outside the Flax Library.
