Worlds of Vishniac

Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

Between 1935 and 1938, on assignment from the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Vishniac photographed Jewish life across Eastern Europe. His intimate and iconic images have come to define the “Old World” that was wiped out in the Holocaust.

© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley