Roman Vishniac
Students of the Talmud

Students of the Talmud

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

Students of the Talmud
Students of the Talmud
ArtistAmerican, born Russia, 1897–1990
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Students of the Talmud
Datec. 1935–1938
Place depictedTrnava, Slovakia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/8 × 15 1/16 in. (39.1 × 38.3 cm)
 Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan and Stanford Alexander in memory of Wendy Meyer
Object number88.28
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited Photographic Masterworks: Recent Acquisitions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Glassell School January 23 - March 4, 1990

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Gelatin silver print
2015.273
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Gelatin silver print
2015.274
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Gelatin silver print
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scan from pdf sent by donor
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Gelatin silver print
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Gelatin silver print
2015.276
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[Radensdorf Train Station in the Spreewald, near Berlin]
c. 1933–1934
Gelatin silver print
2015.269
scan from pdf sent by donor
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[Old woman searching for work, Warsaw or Lublin]
c. 1935–1938
Gelatin silver print
2015.277
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c. 1935–1938
Gelatin silver print
88.25
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Nat Gutman's Wife and Son
c. 1935–1938
Gelatin silver print
88.26
City Boys
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City Boys
c. 1935–1938, printed 1950s
Gelatin silver print
88.27