Ten photographs documenting Jewish figures, schools and institutions in Vilnius. [Vilnius, late 19th century and the 1920s].
Ten photographs documenting the life of the Jewish community of Vilnius. Most of the photographs are mounted on card; some are captioned on verso. Some bear inked stamps of libraries and various Jewish organizations and several bear signatures and inked stamps of the collector, scholar and historian Leyzer Ran (1912-1995), who specialized in the history of Jewish Vilnius and authored "Yerushalayim DeLita" (Jerusalem of Lithuania).
Including: • Two group photographs of children (captioned on verso by hand, in Hebrew: "The Vilnius orphanage 1899"). • Photograph of the EKOPO (Jewish Committee for the Aid of War Victims) orphanage choir conducted by teacher Solovey [the Vilnius-based educator Moshe Solovey?], 1920-1922. Captioned and dated on verso in Yiddish. Inked stamp of the EKOPO library on verso. • Photograph showing girls in the EKOPO orphanage kitchen, 1920-1922. Captioned and dated on a printed note on verso (Russian). With inked stamps of the S. An-Ski Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society in Vlnius. • A group photograph of Karaite community members, on the occasion of the dedication of the new Karaite synagogue ("Kenesa") in the Žvėrynas neiborhood of Vilnius, summer 1923. Captioned on verso in Yiddish, signed by Leyzer Ran and stamped with his stamp. • Photograph of the "Vilnius Educational Society" (Vilner Bildungs-Gezelshaft – Vilbig) choir. • Group photograph from the visit of the revolutionary and Yiddish author Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, taken in the Strashun library hall in Vilnius. Captioned on verso in Yiddish. The photograph also depicts the writer Shmuel Zhitlowsky, the historian, bibliographer and chief librarian of the Strashun library Cheikel Lunsky, and others. Stamped with the stamps of the Vilnius-based photographer E. Cejtlin and Leyzer Ran. • And more.
10 photographs. Size and condition vary. Stains, tears and minor blemishes.