Blank family
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The Blank family in the Russian Empire was the family of the maternal great-grandfather of Vladimir Lenin.
Record Book of the Great Synagogue of Starokonstantinov
Moshko Blank’s signature in Russian at the bottom of his complaint of the arbitrary decision of the provincial court
Alexander Blank
Shtetl
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Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with substantial Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of pre-Second Wo
An 1893 painting by the artist Isaak Asknaziy of a Jewish wedding with a klezmer band in a shtetl
A reconstruction of a traditional Jewish shtetl in the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town, as it would have appeared in Lithuania
Interior of a wooden dwelling in a traditional Lithuanian shtetl, reconstructed in the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town