| Author |
Alexander Lvov. |
| Collection |
Museum of Petersburg, Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society |
| Imprint |
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005. Booklet, 34 pp., illustrations: 40 b&w, 22.5 × 24 cm. English. |
| Location |
Photo-archive of An-sky’s expeditions. Photographs of S. Yudovin. [vol.] III |
| Description |
European University at St. Petersburg, “Petersburg Judaica” Center (20 October–20 December 2005) |
| Description |
Yudovin’s photographs of Eastern European Jewish children. The images were taken on Yudovin’s first ethnographic expedition with An-sky (1912), who used them to promote his vision of a “Jewish nursery”—an institution that would bring the best of shtetl child-rearing to the Jewish intelligentsia. Ceremonial objects and Torah ornaments featured in two photographs: one of synagogue silver (no. 21), the other from an exhibition of ritual objects collected by An-sky during his expeditions (no. 22). Photographs with brief captions. 27 items. |
| Description |
This was the third 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 3 exhibitions in this series, see: #1850, #1851, and #1913. |
| main keywords |
AN-SKY (SHLOYME RAPOPORT)CEREMONIAL OBJECTSEASTERN EUROPEPHOTOGRAPHSSHTETLSYUDOVIN, SOLOMONTORAH ORNAMENTS |
| minor keywords |
BesamimCandlesticks/CandelabraHand-washing vesselsHanukkah lampsHistorical photographsJudaica exhibitions, pre-World War II (photographs of)Keter TorahKiddush cupsRussia/Soviet UnionTassTombstones, cutters/engraversUkraine |