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.
