Registan

Not on view

Date1985-10-01

Dimensionsoverall: 8 in x 10 in

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit Lineinternal credit: Gift of Barbara Pfeffer; external credit: Barbara Pfeffer Collection, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York

Object number1999.P.650

Object DescriptionBlack and white photograph. Registan, public square of ancient Samarkand, framed by three madrasahs: Ulugh Beg Madrasah, Tilya-Kori Madrasah and Sher-Dor Madrasah. A woman is seated at a water fountain in the center of the plaza.

Keywords

Samarkand

NotesThe Coalition to Free Soviet Jews organized a trip to the Soviet Union for journalist Peter Hellman, photographer Barbara Pfeffer, and Coalition representative Sally Friedman. They arrived September 11, 1985 in Leningrad, and were expelled from the Soviet Union a week earlier than they had planned on October 4th.

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