Unidentified photographer
1866
Jews from the shtetl of Orinin. European Jews [Podolia Guberniya, Kamenetsky Uyezd, Shtetl of Orinin]

Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21546
 
Curatorial description (Accessed: 5 August 2021)
The photograph was received from from the Kamenets District Chief of Police.
 
Orynin (also Orinin) was a shtetl of Orinin Volost, Kamenets District; in the 1860s, it numbered 690 households and 4,555 residents (of which 40.1% were Jewish). It was 16 kilometers away from Kamenets-Podolsky and the nearest Zemstvo station in the shtetl of Lanckorun. The Jewish community formed there by the end of the 6th century. In 1863, 4 synagogues were active. The Jews worked in artisan workshops and in the tannery built by Jewish merchant Gutherz. (we used the information from The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary)
 
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
 
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