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Sholem Aleichem cabinet card portrait

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Description
The photograph shows a youthful Sholem Aleichem in a three-quarter length portrait, seated and facing front. He is wearing a cape and holds a large hat in his lap. The author is posed sitting on a bench before a painted backdground featuring a rustic bridge and a forest in the distance. He is identified as the subject of this portrait only by an annotation in ink on the verso.
Names
Balabana, A., (Photographer) (Photographer)
Shapiro, G., (Photographer) (Photographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1890
Place: Odessa
Publisher: M. Fishelev
Library locations
Dorot Jewish Division
Shelf locator: **P 23-15
Topics
Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916
Authors, Ukrainian -- 19th century
Authors, Yiddish -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- 19th century
Authors
Genres
Photographs
Portraits
Autographs
Notes
Content: Title devised by cataloger.
Content: Publication date based on annotation in ink on verso of card.
Content: Printed at bottom of mount: "A. Balabana, G. Shapyro ; Odessa."
Content: Printed at bottom of mount: "Vʹisochayshiya Blagodarnosti."
Content: Printed on verso: "Fotografiya A. Balabana, G. Shapyro, V Odessiʹ, Deribasovskaya tsp.d. N° 19.".
Content: Printed in cartouche on verso: "Nehatyvʼi sokhranyayutsya."
Biographical/historical: Born Solomon Rabinowitz in Pereyaslav, Ukraine, the author spent his childhood in the shtetl, Voronkov. Embarking upon a literary career in the late 1870s, Rabinowitz originally wrote in Hebrew and Russian, but, by the early 1880s, began writing works for the popular press in Yiddish, employing the pseudonym, "Sholem Aleichem." Following his marriage, he moved his family to Kiev, where he experienced some prosperity for a few years, but, after some financial setbacks moved to Odessa, where he further developed his literary reputation and popularity. Sholem Aleichem decided to leave the country in the wake of the 1905 pogroms, leading a peripatetic and eventful life before spending his final years in New York City.
Physical Description
Albumen prints
Cabinet photographs
Extent: 1 photograph : albumen print on cabinet card mount ; photo 14.2 x 10.3 cm, on mount 16.2 x 10.7 cm
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 1407119416
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23178453
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 24.01.045
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 24.01.046
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 25e8a8e0-8d55-013c-b5ac-0242ac110004
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