Forever Yiddish - Songs From The Shtetl

Pale of Settlement map, showing the percentage of the Jewish population in 1884

Participants of the first ethnographic expedition in 1912. From left to right: Solomon Yudovin, Joel Engel, and S. An-sky.

An-sky interviews locals during the expedition

Susman Kiselgof (on the right, seated with a child) with a phonograph in a shtetl during the expedition

An-sky in 1914, a volunteer of the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims

Hanna Rovina as Leah in the Hebrew-language premiere of The Dybbuk. Habima Theater, Moscow, 31 January 1922.

Members of S. An-sky's ethnographic expedition in the Jewish Museum in St Petersburg (from left to right) Abraham Rechtman, Solomon Yudovin, S. An-sky, with Sholem Aleichem, his wife Olga Rabinovitch, and Moisei Ginsburg, 1914

A print made by Solomon Yudovin after the expedition.

S. An-sky's "Dos Yidishe Etnografishe Program", published in 1914. The title and the author's name are in Russian, even though the whole text is in Yiddish.

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The Jewish Ethnographic Expedition (1912–1914) was a project to document and preserve the traditional Jewish culture of the Pale of Settlement, a region in the Russian Empire where Jews were legally restricted to live. Led by the writer and social activist S. An-sky, the expedition was motivated by concerns that the modernization of Eastern European Jewish life was rapidly erasing centuries-old customs, folklore, and religious practices. The Pale of Settlement, home to millions of Jews, was seen as a critical area for capturing authentic Jewish traditions that had been largely insulated from the influences of urbanization and assimilation.
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The Jewish Ethnographic Expedition (1912–1914) was a project to document and preserve the traditional Jewish culture of the Pale of Settlement, a region in the Russian Empire where Jews were legally restricted to live. Led by the writer and social activist S. An-sky, the expedition was motivated by concerns that the modernization of Eastern European Jewish life was rapidly erasing centuries-old customs, folklore, and religious practices. The Pale of Settlement, home to millions of Jews, was seen as a critical area for capturing authentic Jewish traditions that had been largely insulated from the influences of urbanization and assimilation.

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