| Author |
Valery Dymshits. |
| Collection |
Museum of Petersburg, Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society |
| Imprint |
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005. Booklet, 29 pp., illustrations: 28 b&w, 22.5 × 24 cm. English. |
| Location |
Photo-archive of An-sky’s expeditions. Photographs of S. Yudovin. [vol.] II |
| Description |
European University at St. Petersburg, “Petersburg Judaica” Center (18 June–20 September 2005) |
| Description |
Yudovin’s photographs of Eastern European Jews as “working people”. The images, taken while Yudovin served as An-sky’s expedition photographer, well-illustrate An-sky’s lifelong attraction to the theme of Jewish workers, their everyday life and culture. Essay by Valery Dymshits, focusing on An-sky’s views on the subject. Photographs with brief captions. 25 items. |
| Description |
This was the second in a series of exhibitions that endeavored to show, through archival photographs from the Museum of Petersburg Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society (kept in the archives of the “Petersburg Judaica” Center), the world of the shtetl on the eve of its destruction. For the other three exhibitions, see: #1850, #1852, and #1913. |
| main keywords |
AN-SKY (SHLOYME RAPOPORT)EASTERN EUROPEPHOTOGRAPHSSHTETLSYUDOVIN, SOLOMON |
| minor keywords |
Historical photographsRussia/Soviet UnionTombstones, cutters/engraversUkraine |