Unidentified photographer
1866
Jew from the shtetl of Karvasary. [Podolia Guberniya, Kamenetsky Uyezd, Shtetl of Karvasary]

Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21548
 
Curatorial description (Accessed: 5 August 2021)
The photograph was received from from the Kamenets District Chief of Police.
 
Karvasary was a shtetl in Dolzhetskaya Volost, Kamenets District, with 198 households and nearly 800 residents in the 1860s. It was 1 kilometer away from Kamenets-Podolsky.
 
On the man's head is a shtraiml, a fur cap worn by Hasidim over a kippah; on his shoulders is a talith, or praying shawl. On his feet are white knee-high stockings, into which short trousers were tucked, and leather shoes; such clothing was typical for Jews more orthodox in religious matters.
 
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
 
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