In the Beys-medresh [House of Study]
Photograph of two men studying in the beys-medresh (Heb., bet ha-midrash, a room or building used for traditional Torah/Talmud study as well as prayer). This is one of many photographs taken by Solomon Yudovin to document traditional Jewish life in the Russian Empire before World War I.
Credits
A. Ivanov, Experiments of a “Young Man for Photographic Works”: Solomon Yudovin and Russian Pictoralism (St. Petersburg: European University at St. Petersburg and Center “Petersburg Judaica,” 2005). Photo courtesy Harvard University Library.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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