shperk | Фотографии из Пинска (Reply)

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Pinsk flotilla

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fish market A photograph from the book The Alien Immigrant published in 1903 showing a busy riverside scene at Pinsk, now in Belarus but then part of the Pale of Settlement (the region where Jews were permitted to live) in Russia. The town lies on the banks of two rivers - the Pina and the Pripyat - and these rivers gave many Jews a living, either as skilled boatmen or dockworkers, or else in the shipyards and sawmills. In 1897 the Jewish community in the town stood at 21,000, approximately 74% of the total population.

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My great grandfather, Mosche VIS(S)OTSKY, lived in Pinsk. He was a carpenter. He was not certain of his exact age, which was common in that time. Even his daughter, my grandmother, did not know her date of birth. Years ago, when I began to do research, I paid a professional to search the Minsk archives. I was sent an extract of the Pinsk census of 1894 in which Mosche was said to have been born in 1836, listed as Mosche Peisachov (son of Peisach).

A photo of the quarter where Mosche lived in Pinsk

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same as above

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A marriage in 1911 in Pinsk, Mosche is at the first line on the left, with the white beard

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Street scene at Oginsky Street. Photo 1920's.

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street

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postcard

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soldiers

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Central market

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market squeare

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A. Kacyzna, detail from "Portraits of Pinsk, Poland,"
Forward, October 19, 1924

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Retrato de una familia judнa. Pinsk, Polonia, hacia 1922.
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Plotnik Family From left: Mordechai-Michael Plotnik, Moshe (?) Slava, Joseph (below) and Ida Kavon, Abraham Zvi Plotnik, Sara and Baruch-Mendle Plotnik, Moshe-Isaac Plotnik. Pinsk circa 1905