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Visual Art & Design

The Greatest Hairdresser of the 20th Century, Revealed

In 1947, Roman Vishniac documented Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors near Paris. He also photographed Antoine.

By Maya Benton · April 30, 2015
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Roman Vishniac Archive Now Available Online

Digitized archive features iconic images of pre-war Jewish life in Europe

By Stephanie Butnick · August 28, 2014
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Book Reviews

A History of the Grandparents I Never Had

A newly translated excerpt unearths the lives—from the shtetl to Auschwitz—of ancestors who died before the author was born

By Ivan Jablonka · October 3, 2013
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What Do You Know About Roman Vishniac?

Check out a great event featuring Tablet’s Alana Newhouse and Maya Benton

By Adam Chandler · January 24, 2013
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Surprise Shot

A discovery, just in time for Black History Month

By Maya Benton · February 1, 2012
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Cropping Out the Truth

A closer reading of Ernest Coles

By Alana Newhouse · November 17, 2010
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Teaching the Pre-Holocaust

Emerging pedagogy looks at life before wartime

By Marc Tracy · July 16, 2010
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The Holocaust in Russia, Photographed

The Soviet Union obscured victims’ Jewishness

By Marc Tracy · June 28, 2010
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Vishniac Inspires High Fashion

For once, pre-Holocaust photographer conjures appropriate nostalgia

By Alana Newhouse · June 10, 2010
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Orthodox or Not, All Jews Are Fellows

Alana Newhouse’s Roman Vishniac article inspires a rabbi’s timely sentiment

By Alana Newhouse · April 23, 2010
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Art Market

Graphic novelist James Sturm turns his attention to a struggling Eastern European rug maker

By Vox Tablet · March 29, 2010
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