Real photo Postcard - Three nomadic Jews from Czortkow [Ukraine].
For centuries, Jews lived in Czortkow. Their record of history largely reflects the lives of many Jewish communities in the area. In 1722 the number of Jews in the city was only 110. In 1865, Rabbi David Moshe Friedman, son of Rabbi Yisrael of Rouzin, purchased a castle in the city and made it the center of the Hasidic courtyard he founded, "Chortkov Hasidism", which was annexed to the Rozine Hasidism. The establishment of the courtyard, considered one of the largest and central Hasidic courtyards, led to the city's publicity among Eastern European Jewry as a whole. Most of Chortkov's Hassidim were murdered in the Holocaust, but it continued until the last Admor's death in 1958. Today, it still remembered as a small synagogue in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Safed, Manchester, Antwerp and London.
Very rare, postcards from the city of Czortków in general are considered rare, and in particular Jewish postcards.
Not sent by mail. few stains, good condition.
