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World Jewish News
Odessa Residents Shown Old Postcards and Hundred-year-old Pesach Trousers
13.06.2009
Today, as part of the Days of Jewish Culture, the Museum of the History of Odessa Jews "Migdal-Shorashim" (Nezhinskaya, 66) has opened three exhibitions at once, reports the correspondent of TIA "Okna-Odessa" .
The first one consists entirely of a private collection of Anatoliy Drozdovskiy, a famous Odessa collector and a regional ethnographer. For the exhibition the antique postcards were selected, addressed either to Odessa Jews, or depicting scenes from Jewish life, decorated with photographs of synagogues in Warsaw, St. Petersburg, as well as the Western Wall.
Besides, the collector introduced the viewers to the unique items: tin-plate boxes with brand marks of the Krahmalnikov brothers, "Vysotskiy Tea," "Meerovich's Confectionary"; a copper mug with a brand of the tinker Shmul Pinkus; a spoon for moulding teeth of the dentist David Faynbrauna; a font set of Isaac Levinson; a shoe horn from the warehouse of a second guild merchant Jonah Koriman, and many other ancient things. The most remarkable exhibit, according to the general opinion - well-preserved, despite of the century-old age, Pesach pants by Plesser manufacture, with hand-sewn stitches and buttons with a Star of David.
The second museum exhibition is called "War and Peace". It is formed from the funds of the Museum "Migdal-Shorashim" and represents the old family photos, documents, household items, related to the military history of Jewish Odessa. The stands and displays also contain the Soviet newspapers of the Great Patriotic War, Odessa newspapers of occupation period, German and Romanian anti-Semitic materials of the 1940's. Unfortunately, there are also fresh anti-Semitic leaflets, distributed in Odessa, literally, in recent years.
The third exhibition, entitled "Modern Jewish Odessa," consists of the pictures taken by Mikhail Aerov, Irina Blit, Boris Bukhman, Sergei Gevelyuk, David Nersesyan (Odessa), Sophia Royhman (Simferopol), Maryana Trembovler (the Netherlands).
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