The realization of the idea to establish a museum entitled History and Culture of Jewish people on the territory of Russia on the premises of the Russian Ethnographic Museum is quite in vein with St Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia. The idea to create a museum dealing with the problems of the interconnection of the culture of multinational Russia and the world's culture is not a new one. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, the organization of such a museum was among the activities of the Jewish History and Ethnography Society founded in 1908. The museum existed in 1916-1929. Several ethnographic expeditions headed by the writer and public figure S. An-sky (pen-name of Schlome-Zeimel Rappoport; 1863-1920) were sent to Ukraine in 1912-1914 with the target to gather materials for the museum's expositions…
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