Research Catalog

Title

[Sholem Aleichem cabinet card portrait]

Publication

Odessa: M. Fishelev, [1890?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Balabana, A. (Photographer)
• Shapiro, G. (Photographer)
• Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916

Description

1 photograph : albumen print on cabinet card mount; photo 14.2 x 10.3 cm, on mount 16.2 x 10.7 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Albumen prints > 1890-1900
• Portrait photographs > 1890-1900
• Cabinet photographs
• Authors
• Portraits
• Photographs
• Authors, Yiddish > Ukraine > Odesa > 19th century > Portraits
• Authors, Ukrainian > 19th century > Portraits
• Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916 > Portraits

Genre/Form

• Photographs.
• Portraits.
• Authors.
• Cabinet photographs.
• Portrait photographs – 1890-1900.
• Albumen prints – 1890-1900.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Publication date based on annotation in ink on verso of card.
• Printed at bottom of mount: "A. Balabana, G. Shapyro ; Odessa."
• Printed at bottom of mount: "Vʹisochayshiya Blagodarnosti."
• Printed on verso: "Fotografiya A. Balabana, G. Shapyro, V Odessiʹ, Deribasovskaya tsp.d. N° 19.".
• Printed in cartouche on verso: "Nehatyvʼi sokhranyayutsya."

Biography (note)

• 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.

OCLC

1407119416

Title

[Sholem Aleichem cabinet card portrait]

Publisher

Odessa: M. Fishelev, [1890?]

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

card

Biography

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.

Added Author

Balabana, A. (Photographer), photographer.

Shapiro, G. (Photographer), photographer.

Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916, depicted.