1. Travel document allowing Meir Leizerovich (son of leizer) Ushemovitz to travel to the city Irkutsk in Siberia from May 31, 1910 for one week. Signed and sealed by the Assistant Police Chief of Irkutsk and the Secretary of the city of Irkutsk. (See below).
2. Ketubah from Saratov from 1926, written & signed by their Rabbi Yosef Bogatin Hy”d. He was killed by the Russians a few years later. Please see Hebrew description for bigraphical details.
Photo of the ‘Kol Yaakov’ Yeshiva in Moscow. 1958. End of first year celebration.
Over a hundred years ago Jews in czarist Russia were not allowed to go to the large cities, they were forced to stay in the small peasant villages.
If a Jew needed for some reason to travel to a city they had to first get a special permit from the czar\'s government, a one time pass, allowing that particular Jew to travel to that particular town or city for a certain purpose for a certain amount of days.
This document is one of those special permits. Last paragraph says if you need to be there longer you have to get a new permit.
Interestingly, the last printed word on the first line is "evre", Jew, as these permits were only made for Jews.
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