Our photo gallery

The picture gallery of Zekher Avoteinu offers you a unique opportunity to glimpse the places where your ancestors once walked. Michael Kheifets, a member of Zekher Avoteinu and the official photographer of the Saint Petersburg Jewish community, took these pictures while doing research work in the numerous ethnographic expeditions of the Petersburg Jewish University to the Pale of Settlement.

If you are interested you may email us at... and order a copy (copies). On our web site we will show only some photos from the huge collection of Michael Kheifets. A special service is rendered for those who know the name of the shtetle their ancestors were from. You can order a photo of a particular shtetle you are interested in.

Michael Kheifets was born in 1952 in Vladivostok. In 1976 he became interested in artistic photography. Since 1984 he has lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. Michael Kheifets has taken active part in national and international photo exhibitions. His works are in the collections of the Russian Ethnographic Museum (Saint Petersburg), Diaspora Museum (Tel Aviv), Jewish Museum (Vienna), as well as in private collections of Russia, England, Germany, Israel, and the USA.

Jewish watchmaker, Tomashpol, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine	Chernivtsy, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine
Ruins of the synagogue, Bykhov, Byelorussia	A tombstone fragment, Medzhibozh, Ukraine.
Tomb of Baal Shem Tov, Medzhibozh, Ukraine.	Jewish house, Shargorod, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine