A Schedrin/Bobruisk Travelog
by Sheldon Benjamin, MD, Miriam Rosenblum, Malka Benjamin, and Raphael Benjamin
[Ed. note: this is excerpted from a much longer original document that covers the entire trip taken in June, 1996 by Sheldon Benjamin, Miriam Rosenblum, and their children Rafi (age 8) and Malka (age 11). The Oleg referred to is Oleg Perzashkevich, the Minsk researcher, who is an old friend of Sheldon’s.]
Part 4: More photos
Once the home of the wealthiest Jew in Bobruisk.
One of our elderly informants in Schedrin photographed in her living room.
Kitchen of an older woman in Schedrin we interviewed. Milk is kept in the clay vessel. Chickens and geese wander in and out on the floor.
A prewar Yeshiva. It is located next to the old synagogue on Socialistichestnaya St, at the corner of Bukharova St.
Elderly Jewish man at the weekly Bobruisk Jewish community gathering.
Ruins of a prewar Bobruisk synagogue with obvious oriental influence in architecture.
Another old Bobruisk Jewish home.
A home in tiny Varatin.
The Bobruisk Jewish community center at 67 Sovetskaya.
View from the stage at the weekly Jewish community gathering. The woman in the right front is 101 and walks to the meetings.
Closeup of a window in the former synagogue shown on page 3 (now used as an apartment building) showing a magen dovid in relief.
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Updated 9/2/99
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