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Unidentified photographer
Jew of the city of Simferopol [Crimea]
1866
Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21557
LL/112543
Curatorial description (Accessed: 6 August 2021)
In 1847, the Jewish community of Simferopol comprised the communities of Simferopol proper (431 persons), Yalta (87 persons) and Eupatoria (30 persons). After the Crimean War of 1853–56, the inflow of Ashkenazim to Simferopol noticeably increased. According to some data, the number of rabbinical Jews in Crimea in 1863 was over 5,000.
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
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