The Jewish World of Yesterday 1860-1938: Texts and Photographs from Central Europe

This book is a richly illustrated anthology of images of Jewish life in central and eastern Europe from 1860 until World War II. The German edition, published in in Vienna in 1990, is already a best seller. There are many outstanding photographs presented along with texts from the leading writers and thinkers of the period including Einstein, Freud, Kafka, Heine, Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, Buber, and others.