פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A meeting with Pinchas Polonski who writes about Jewish religious topics in Russian; Israel will help Russia create a research center for agricultural biotechnology.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Two lectures about the link between Jerusalem and the Caucuses; the third volume of the series, “The History of Jewish Music in Russia” is celebrated in St. Petersburg.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
At the Sefer Center - lectures about Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish language; a talk in Eshkolot about paintings of the Virgin Mary wearing a prayer shawl; exhibit of Auschwitz photos taken by an SS officer.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Putin’s invitation to Jews to return to Russia gets parodied on the Russian internet; in memory of the Holocaust victims – the screening of a film about Russian writer Ivan Bunin who saved a Jewish writer and two musicians.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
Several events on the eve of Holocaust Commemoration Day; in Tula – a Yiddish club where you can study Yiddish and Yiddish culture; the artist Haim Sokol gives a lecture about monuments.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A TV film about Judaism and the State of Israel elicits criticism; a contest of IT projects announces the winners.
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
6,000 people made Aliyah from Russia this year; a new kosher restaurant in the center of Moscow; Jewish boy wins prize for creating robot that teaches kids to play chess.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A new Torah scroll for the Jewish community of Zhukov; a delegation from Birobidzhan comes to Moscow; the yortsayt of the poet Osip Mandelstam is commemorated.Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
A new Russian postal stamp honoring the Sobibor Uprising; the publishing house “Knizhniki” releases a Russian translation of Leyb Kvitko’s novel, “Liam and Patrick.”Read More
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פֿון אלכּסנדרה פּאָליאַן
In honor of Hanukkah, President Putin invites the Chief Rabbi of the Russian Chabad to the Kremlin; an exhibit at the Gulag History Museum displays documents and artifacts linked to the “Doctors’ Plot.”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