We have highlighted several times the work of Cologne-based Christian Herrmann, who travels frequently in east-central Europe to photograph Jewish heritage sites — he has produced a book of his photos, has held an exhibition and maintains a blog, Vanished World, where he posts his images.
With Hanukkah (and Christmas) just around the corner, Christian has put together a 2016 calendar featuring his photographs — he is it offering for free, downloadable as a PDF file and then printable.
He writes:
A friend asked me recently if she could get some of my photos for a calendar, to give as a gift to her parents. I was skeptical at the first moment, because I thought a calendar is a rather trivial thing. But then I liked the idea of people accompanied by the pictures of a vanished world throughout the year. Immediately I thought of friends to whom I would like to give such a calendar. The list grew longer and I realized that it would exceed my financial means, to give a gift to all of them. The solution is to provide a print file.
To give a theme to the calendar, I have restricted the pictures regionally. All photos are from western Ukraine. Represented are synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and other places with a Jewish reference in Galicia, Bukovina, Volhynia and Podolia.
Here are a couple of the months:
Click here to access the page from which you can download English and German versions of the PDFs
2 comments on “Christian Herrmann’s Jewish Heritage Calendar offer”
A previous [channukah] gift.!
Thanks and schajech zu sogn!
Gut sjabbes.
Ben Franken
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Not previous [in a certain way,ja] but PRECIOUS!