Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph by David Shneer
Journal: AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies
Year: 2022

Reviewed by: Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph by David Shneer Valerie Hébert David Shneer. Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 280 pp. Iconic photographs transcend their particular origin story. The emotion they capture is so viscerally and universally familiar that their rootedness to specific time and place is peripheral to their significance. Grief, the subject of David Shneer's last book, belongs among these iconic photographs.