Incredibly vivid and eerie colour photographs from Russia circa 1910. “Eerie,” because we’re so unused to looking at still photographic images from before the ’50s, let alone the ’10s, in colour with this sort of clarity. It feels like looking through a magic window through time. This isn’t even the most arresting image, but I find it fascinating to see the way we Jews dressed in that era. Old-school Judaism wasn’t always Hasidic-style black frock coats and hats—look at the kid on the right, that Eastern flair!
