Photograph: Former tavern

European Jews

Minsk province, Mozyrsky district, village Zapolye

1906

Gelatin silver printing with chemical development (DOP)

11,5 x 16

РЭМ 1013-31

A tavern was a public house or an inn selling liquors. In 1894, an alcohol monopoly was introduced in Russia, and private public houses were replaced with state-run liquor outlets. The reform deprived many Jews of their source of subsistence, both those engaged in alcohol distillation and those who kept a pub, a granary etc.