פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The art world lost the great Russian ballerina with Jewish roots, Maya Plisetskaya; lectures about famous personalities raised in Odessa, at the Moscow Jewish Museum.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Although over 1.5 thousand people attend the Limmud Festival, it wasn’t without scandal; the well-known comic book “Maus” is removed from bookstores.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A conference about relations between the religions; Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmid meets with the Pope; a lecture about Jewish artists in Russian avant-gardeRead More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A Lecture about films on Jewish subjects made in the former Odessa film studio, Mizrach; an exhibit of work by photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Exhibit of haggadahs that belonged to past Lubavitch rebbes; the former GOSET building will be donated to the Shalom theater.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Moscow synagogues are preparing communal seders for the community; a lecture about Nietzsche’s influence on the Jews; a lecture series about kabbalah and Hasidic thoughtRead More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Far-right nationalists held their annual meeting in Saint Petersburg; an exhibition of Leib Kvitko‘s children‘s books opened at the State Literary Museum in MoscowRead More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The Institute for Jewish Studies in Saint Petersburg and the “Ort” Center unveiled their new project “the electronic archive of Jewish towns”; A roundtable on the Zionist movement in the USSR.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Purim this year occurred on March 5, the date of Stalin’s death in 1953; Tancred Golenpolski, the editor of the first Jewish newspaper in Russian after the anti-Semitic persecutions.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
An outpouring of grief over the murder of Boris Nemtsov; an exhibit of Bible translations in many languages at the Jewish MuseumRead More
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Alexandra Polian was born in Moscow and studed Hebrew and Yiddish as well as pedagogy in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University. She works there now as a research associate and teaches Hebrew, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish bi-lingualism and German. She also teaches Yiddish in the “Eshkolot” program. Yiddish folklore collection and research are her specialty. Each year she undertakes an ethnographic expedition to Besserabia and Bukovina to collect folklore. She also serves on the editorial board of the Yiddish periodical “Tsaytshrift”.Read More
אַלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן איז געבוירן געוואָרן אין מאָסקווע, זיך געלערנט העברעיִש און ייִדיש אינעם אינסטיטוט פֿון די לענדער פֿון אַזיע און אַפֿריקע בײַם מאָסקווער מלוכה־אוניווערסיטעט און פּעדאַגאָגיק אויפֿן פּעדאַגאָגישן פֿאַקולטעט. אַצינד איז זי דאָרט אַ וויסנשאַפֿטלעכע מיטאַרבעטערין, וווּ זי קנעלט העברעיִש, העברעיִשע און ייִדישע ליטעראַטור, ייִדישע צוויי־שפּראַכיקייט און דײַטש. אַרבעט אויך אין „אשכּולות” ווי אַ ייִדיש־לערערין. פֿאַרנעמט זיך מיט זאַמלען און פֿאָרשן דעם ייִדישן פֿאָלקלאָר. יעדעס יאָר פֿאָרט אין עקספּעדיציעס קיין בוקאָווינע און בעסאַראַביע. אַ רעדאַקציע־מיטגליד פֿון דער אויסגאַבע „צײַטשריפֿט” (מינסק־ווילנע).Read More