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When we think about Jews in the Czarist Russia, what comes to mind? Probably black-and-white, or maybe sepia-toned, images of poor, pious Jews, shot through a dusty lens. So Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky’s photograph of Jewish boys and their teacher in Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) might come as something of a surprise. Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) took the picture […]