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Elliot Ross - Prague House of Photography
It is an odd way for a Jewish man to begin a book about the Holocaust, with a quote from Adolf Hitler. But so begins Elliot Ross's collection of photographs, Yehudhith, with a picture of a woman holding a violin and, facing her, a quote from Mein Kampf—Hitler musing (horribly) about the Jews who had lived in Linz, Austria for centuries, becoming what Hitler calls "Europeanized," taking on "a human look," until, he says, "even I took them for Germans."
And, indeed, the woman in Ross's photograph does look German. She is blond, fair-skinned, strong-chinned. The violin and bow she holds are veritable signifiers of high Mittel Europa culture ...
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