In this section of the Museum, two installations have been created that give an idea of professions traditionally popular among the Jews.

The installation on the right introduces the widespread craft of the Jewish population - the manufacture of shoes. You are in a Jewish shoemaker's workshop and you can review a set of instruments and tools for making shoes. This complex of exhibits has been handed over to the Museum by a Ukrainian family who found these items in a house purchased from Jews. Among the found items particularly interesting are the mirror with the star of David, the machine for processing leather and mezuzah case of the late 19th century, what directly testify Jewishness of its owner. Notice the wooden nails that were used to make the shoes more durable and moisture resistant. In addition, wooden nails were cheaper than metal ones.

Interesting fact. The workshop is situated in Jewish street (You can notice street sign).

On the left - installation of the Yekaterinoslav photo parlor of the early 20th century. In the late 19th – early 20th centuries about 60% of such photo parlors in the city belonged to Jewish photographers. Among them, the most famous were Reuben Beek, Mordukh Kivatsky and Boris Kogan, the father of renowned pianist and conductor Leonid Kogan.

In the presented installation the main elements of a typical interior of a photo parlor have been reconstructed - from wallpaper ornamentation to electrical wiring and light switches. On the walls of the parlor, the owner placed his products - photographs of habitants of Yekaterinoslav of the early 20th century. From the window of the photo studio it is opened a panorama of the city, including the view of the intersection of the Central Catherine Avenue and Sadova Street (nowadays it is D. Yavornitsky Avenue and A. Fabr Street). Of course, the main object in the photo studio was the camera. Copy of the camera of the early 20th century You can see in the center of the room.

HISTORY IN STONE

In front of you there is the exposition “History in stone” – a collection of bricks made in Yekaterynoslav province, which was donated to the Museum by the collectionner Pavlo Mamenko. All the samples presented were made at the brick factories of Yekaterinoslav in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. This business was very popular and belonged to representatives of different ethnic groups – including Jews. Among the well-known owners of Yekaterinoslav brick factories was initiator of the foundation of the Historical Museum in our city – Alexander Paul, the patron of the Ukrainian movement – Vladimir Khrinnikov, the leader of the nobility of the Yekaterynoslav province, Prince Mykola Urusov, the merchant of Yekaterinoslav David Pchelkin. The initials indicated on the bricks are the first letters of the name of the factory owner. For example, one can often see the brick initials of Iona Mikhailovich Maidansky, the owner of the largest brick production.

Another well-known owner of the brick factory was the merchant of the first guild, David Pchelkin. An example of his production is the exhibit No. 62. His house was built exactly from such bricks, it is located near the the Menorah Center on Uspenska Square.

Note the color of the brick - such a characteristic reddish hue, because the local clay for the manufacture of bricks had a significant impurity of iron ore. Looking at this brick, one can imagine the houses of Yekaterinoslav built from it and to imagine the general view of the city.

Exhibit No. 11 is a form for baking clay. Exactly in such forms bricks were being made, processing clay at high temperature.

In Yekaterinoslav, not only bricks were produced, but also tiling, trying to reproduce foreign samples by local efforts. For example, Exhibit No. 51 is an example of the original French Marseille Tile, and Exhibit No. 50 is an analogue of Yekaterinoslav production.

Below you can see the panorama of the city - notice how the urban landscape of Yekaterinoslav has changed since 1875 to nowadays.

On map 1. "The plan of the city of Yekaterinoslav" of 1909 is clearly shown the place of compact residence of the Jewish population - "Jewish settlement". Mark No. 20 on the map is the Choral Synagogue (now the Golden Rose Synagogue). In addition, there were several dozen Jewish worshipers (prayer houses) in the city.

It was marked on the map - from what kind of bricks was built a particular house, and above - decipher these marks and initials.

On the right the map shows the history of renaming the streets of Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk-Dnipro – some of them have been changed 3 or more times, and some (in bold) never been renamed.