The musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Museum of Jewish Art and History) is hosting about 220 of Roman Vishniac’s photographs. Nearly a hundred of them are exhibited for the first time, and retrace the artist’s steps from his beginnings in Berlin until the Post-war years in the United States. Through his pictures, he illustrates a whole chapter of the history of Jewish communities from Eastern Europe in the ‘20s and ‘30s. The artist documents the life of American Jews, as well as the misery of those who tried to rebuild their lives in Post-War Europe. His photographs also testify of the first signs of the growing Nazi threat in Berlin. A captivating and poignant retrospective that helps to comprehend Jewish history.

“Roman Vishniac: De Berlin à New York, 1920-1975” exhibition, from September 17^th 2014 to January 25^th 2015.
Open Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday from 11am to 6pm, on Wednesday from 11am to 9pm, and on Sunday from 10am to 7pm.
Closed on Saturday.
Full rate: €7 / Concession (18-25): €4,50.

Ernst Kaufmann, in the middle, and two unkwown young Zionists, wearing wooden clogs, learning construction techniques in a quarry, Werkdorp Nieuwesluis, Wieringermeer, Netherlands, 1939 © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography

Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
71, rue du Temple
Hôtel de Saint-Aignan
75003 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 01 86 60
Metro: Rambuteau (line 11) or Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11).

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