To avoid accusations of anti-Semitism, Soviet attacks on traditional Jewish schools, known as cheders or yeshivas, were led by the Yevsektzia, the militant Jewish sections of the Communist Party ...

Dan Perciun issued his statement amid a debate over a history textbook denounced by pro-Russian opposition parties and Moldova's Jewish community on grounds it exaggerates Moldova's links with ...

It is the only school in the Ukraine to be so honored in a contest including all of the technical high schools and institutes of the U. S. S. R. The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency ...

Wiesel described how Soviet Jews with limited knowledge of ... when he asked these kids why they liked their newly-opened Jewish school better than studying in their former state Ukrainian school ...

This little-known chapter of art history is the subject of the Jewish Museum ... outlines the school’s influence on its students, teachers, and the evolution of art in the Soviet Union.

Matveyev began reading Sovetish heymland as a high school student ... and ordinary readers interested in post-war Yiddish literature. Soviet Jewish culture after World War II was characterized ...

the Jewish Agency. However the long term future of ORT’s network of schools in the former Soviet Union is not yet secured. “The Fellowship feels privileged to be able to help; but this is only ...

Picture a long table covered end to end in crystal bowls filled with cured fish, pickled foods, and salads with an alarming amount of mayonnaise. There’s vodka and black bread on the table too.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alum Edward Cotler, a first-generation American who fled antisemitism in the Soviet ... MIT alums and Jewish allies, are rebuking the school and ...