Roman Vishniac Hedar [David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder, Jewish elementary school, Brod] Circa 1938 Vintage. Gelatin silver print On the reverse agency's copyright stamp: „Credit: from BLACK STAR, GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK", therein name of the photographer by an unknown hand in pencil, „LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION" stamp, date stamp: „MAR 19 1943" and three numerical stamps. Inscribed by various hands, among others the exhibition's title: „Children of want and fear", as well as numbered in pencil 13 5/8 × 11 in. With light handling marks 'The Younger Generation of Czechoslovakias's Jewish Population'. Photographs by Vishniac, in: Forward, Sunday Art Section, September 25, 1938 (there detail) / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A pictorial record. New York 1947, title / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A pictorial record. New York 1947, title / Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A Pictorial Record. New York 1965, title and p. 17 (there landscape format and titled: Boys and Books [Carpathian Ruthenia]) / Isaac Bashevis Singer: Eine Kindheit in Warschau. Mit Fotos von Roman Vishniac. Ravensburg 1981, title and frontispiece (each in a bigger cutout) / Roman Vishniac: A Vanished World. Roman Vishniac. London 1983, pl. 6 (there titled and dated: Cheder boys. Vrchni Apša, 1937) / Exh. cat.: Roman Vishniac - Rediscovered. New York, International Center of Photography; Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum; Paris, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme; Warszawa, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2013/16, p. 20, ill. 5 (there bigger cutout and as exhibition announcement 'Pictures of Jewish Life in Prewar Poland' in the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), New York, 1944), p. 136, ill. 4 (there book title: Roman Vishniac: Polish Jews. A Pictorial Record. New York 1947) and p. 156, pl. 56 (there bigger cutout) Children of want and fear. New York, Teachers College Library, Columbia University, 1943 The LIFE Picture Collection / Paul Scharf / Private Collection