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"Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important." --Library Journal, starred review

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"Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important." --Library Journal, starred review

"A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamit...

The Glass Plates of Lublin features selections from the 2,700 glass photographic plates discovered in the attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building in the former Jewish section of Lublin, Poland. Taken between 1913 and 1930, they capture the teeming life of Lublin before the war, at a time when Jews composed a third of the city's population. The images include Jews and Poles, children and the elderly, young lovers, workers, athletes, and everyday people who posed for a camera long ago never dreaming that their portraits would one day be of interest to anyone. Unearthed in 2010, the...