פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Large menorah in the center of Moscow; new Jewish Museum gets a prize; Moscow Helsinki group honors Lev Shlosberg and Andrey Makarevich.Read More
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Conference compares counting rituals among Slavs and Jews; lecture about renewed interest in klezmer music; new playground in Jewish kindergarten is handicapped-accessible.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Politician Lev Shlosberg is given the Citizen of the Year Award; an exhibit by avant-garde painter Abram Monoszon.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Czech chief rabbi gives lecture on art and orthodoxy; exhibit about Jews in WW I; lecture about historical maps of Israel.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Memorial service in the Choral Synagogue for the victims of the Jerusalem terrorist attack; Valery Senderov, Jewish mathematician and activist against anti-Semitism, has died.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A new Jewish community center in Bryansk; a lecture on the attitudes of German speakers to Yiddish, and vice-versa.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Russian version of Moishe Vainberg’s opera “The Passenger” has its premiere in Perm; a gravestone is placed for 12 rabbis murdered by the Stalin regime.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
An exhibit honoring Rabbi Shemarya Leib Medalie, a victim of the Stalin regime; new Russian translations of the Tsene-Rene and Fernando Pessoa’s “Naval Ode”.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
In Voronezh – a re-dedication of one of the largest synagogues in Europe; Chabad is now the official voice of Russian Jewry.Read More
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A paper pavillion in Gorki Park, built by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban serves as a sukkah this week.Read 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