Old photographs of Jews in Samarkand

[Masha]

I thought these were neat and wanted to share them.

Jewish girls


Yeshiva boys




(The color is made with some special technique in the last one. But it's old - from 100 years ago).

[Ulli]

Yes the bottom-picture is. You can see it i.e. on the tube left-side and on the balustrade. I have had an old garden book about roses from the 19th century there they used the technique of "colorieren*" too.

*I don't know the English term.

[Masha]

Oh, I found where the website I got the images from talks about the coloring process:

Prokudin-Gorskii created his negatives by using a camera that exposed one oblong glass plate three times in rapid succession through three different color filters: blue, green, and red. For formal presentations, he printed positive glass slides of these negatives and projected them through a triple lens magic lantern. Prokudin-Gorskii would project the slide through the three lenses, and, with the use of color filters, superimpose the three exposures to form a full color image on a screen.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/prokhtml/prokcolor.html

Fascinating. Very inventive!

[DownwithIslam]

I like Bucharian jews. They are nicer people than most ashkenazim that I have met. I myself an ashkenaz, but I am just saying.

[Masha]

I like Bucharian jews. They are nicer people than most ashkenazim that I have met. I myself an ashkenaz, but I am just saying.

I only met one Bucharian Jew (from Tashkent). She was a nice lady.

I wonder whether a photographer is himself partly Jewish. Gorski is typically a Jewish surname, which refers to a "mountain Jew" (gorskiy yevrey), which means a Jew from Caucasus. I've seen this surname among the Poles, but I don't know whether it could be indigenously Polish or it must have belonged to people with some distant Jewish ancestry.

[Masha]

Ha-ha. Just for comparison. Here are some other females from Samarkand (a Muslim city) from the same period:





Beautiful faces. 

[Ulli]

Yes look at the houses too. The Jews have nice houses with a lot windows that make it bright, warm and nice.

The Muslimes live in dirty caves. 

[Haim_Ben_Shimon_3JFB]

I like Bucharian jews. They are nicer people than most ashkenazim that I have met. I myself an ashkenaz, but I am just saying.

I only met one Bucharian Jew (from Tashkent). She was a nice lady.

I wonder whether a photographer is himself partly Jewish. Gorski is typically a Jewish surname, which refers to a "mountain Jew" (gorskiy yevrey), which means a Jew from Caucasus. I've seen this surname among the Poles, but I don't know whether it could be indigenously Polish or it must have belonged to people with some distant Jewish ancestry.

Yohnathan ben Yakov is bukharian

[AsheDina]

I thought these were neat and wanted to share them.

Jewish girls


Yeshiva boys




(The color is made with some special technique in the last one. But it's old - from 100 years ago).

The top one on the left, looks EXACTLY like my Nana when that age.

[Vito]

I like Bucharian jews. They are nicer people than most ashkenazim that I have met. I myself an ashkenaz, but I am just saying.

I only met one Bucharian Jew (from Tashkent). She was a nice lady.

I wonder whether a photographer is himself partly Jewish. Gorski is typically a Jewish surname, which refers to a "mountain Jew" (gorskiy yevrey), which means a Jew from Caucasus. I've seen this surname among the Poles, but I don't know whether it could be indigenously Polish or it must have belonged to people with some distant Jewish ancestry.

Gorski is just a normal Russian name. The Gorskis that I've met were Russian orthodox. Although, I've met Lutheran Goldsteins as well, so don't go by me lol.

[Rubystars]

I think in English it's called "coloration" and the photos that it is done to are called "colorized".

Those are some very nice pictures.

[Ulli]

I think in English it's called "coloration" and the photos that it is done to are called "colorized".

Those are some very nice pictures.

Nice to know.

[Zelhar]

Ha-ha. Just for comparison. Here are some other females from Samarkand (a Muslim city) from the same period:





Beautiful faces. 

There are no windows in that house, so they put the curtains on the women.

[judeanoncapta]

Many people beleive that Bukharian Jews come from the Lost tribes of Israel more specifically Yissachar and Naftali.

[MassuhDGoodName]

Which one's the chicken?

[angryChineseKahanist]

Wow
Jews have really been scattered.
From the desert to the freezing cold.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Ha-ha. Just for comparison. Here are some other females from Samarkand (a Muslim city) from the same period:





Beautiful faces. 

Looks like a robe hanging on a coat rack. Or a Druid. Or a decapitated person propped up on a wall (which Muzzie butchers have done thousands of times).