פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
In Moscow and in Saint Petersburg demonstrations for Israel; graduation ceremony in the “Machon Ran” Yeshiva; a Jewish picnic in the largest Moscow park.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Jews commemorate tragic date in history, when a Jewish convert and the Jew who taught him Judaism were both burned at the stake; “Seyfer”, the oldest Jewish studies program in Russia, has started its summer session.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Teachers from Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia attend conference on how to teach the Holocaust; contest called to build a memorial for Yuri Levitan, Soviet newscaster during the Nazi era.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Conference on Russian tourism in Israel, held in the beautiful Metropol Hotel; lecture on Soviet films about the Holocaust; Jewish organization founded at Moscow State Medical University.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The Moscow culture project Eshkolot participates in the Jerusalem Festival of “Slow Reading”; a conference on Isaak Babel; a documentary about the Israeli poet, Leah Goldberg.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Two communities receive Torah scrolls for their synagogues; a trip through a town built as a copy of Jerusalem with Russian-Orthodox holy sitesRead More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Moscow Conference, “Russia in World War I”, co-sponsored by the US Holocaust Museum in Washington; Alexander Petsherski, hero of the death camp Sobibor, is honored posthumously.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A street in Moscow turns into a Little Jerusalem for a day; the quarrel over the Schneirson Library continues; a new cemetery.
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
The State Russian Museum is preparing an exhibition in honor of Birobidzhan’s 80th anniversary and a study by the Russian Jewish Congress reveals that Anti-Semitism is growing in the Russian media, the scandal surrounding the conductor Vladimir Spivakov.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A memorial honoring the Polish rescuer of Jews Irena Sendler is erected in Moscow, the Israeli professor Dan Harran gives a lecture on Jewish music of the Renaissance and Anatoli Kaplan‘s paintings are displayed at the Jewish museum.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