Album "Archive of the Dmitri Penbeck's family"
Album "Archive of the
Dmitri Penbek's family"/ compiled by V. Penbek -
Simferopol-Slippery Rock, 2004. - 50 pages
Album "Archive of the Dmitri Penbek's family"/ compiled by V. Penbek - Simferopol-Slippery Rock, 2004. - 50 pages Ways of Karaite families in emigration after Bolshevik Revolution were winding, full of ups and downs. The Archive of the Dmitry Aleksandrovich Penbek, (Nice, France), contains documents of two Crimean Karaite families - Penbek (Yekaterinodar) and Kefeli (Sebastopol, Crimea) that have emigrated from ruined Russian Empire. The end of the 19th century and the beginning of 21st century are the time frames of this Archive, which deals with 5 generations. These documents show us the fates of the families' members during the pre-revolutionary period in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), the Civil War (1918-1922), and the emigration of some families' members to Turkey, Serbia, and France (1920-1930). The Kefeli branch was particularly described by the authors of "Karaite Folk Encyclopedia", (v 6/1, Moscow, 2000). However details of both lines are presented in the book by B. S. Eljashevich Moscow, (1993), Russian Academy of Science. The scientific importance of the Penbek Archive is based on the documents signed by Felix (Pinchas) Aronovich Maleki (1852-1925), Seraya (Sergei) Markovich Shapshal (1873-1961), Levi Babovich, and Tobiah Simovich Levi Bobovich (1879-1956). Also the materials of the Penbek brothers activities in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century are very important.
