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Russian Jewish history

A group of Jews from Irkutsk inside the synagogue. (Eli Itkin/ Dorit Wagner/The Jewish Community of Irkutsk)
November 17, 2018, 3:51 am
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion
By Rossella Tercatin
Rabbi Jehoshua Raskin shares a ride with other visitors to Lyubavichi, Russia, August 26, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 1, 2018, 5:51 pm
A tiny Russian village of Chabad fame dreams of becoming Jewish pilgrimage site
Running water, gas and electricity are not readily available in the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest Hasidic movements, but rising tourism may change that
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A Yiddish newspaper comic depicting a noted intellectual as praying to Karl Marx. (Yale University Press)
August 27, 2018, 3:01 pm
How the stereotype of Jews and money goes beyond the Pale (of Settlement)
A unique Jewish relationship with materialism has roots grounded in tradition, says scholar Eliyahu Stern. But anti-Semites have historically subverted it to suit their propaganda
By JP O’ Malley
Rabbi Berel Lazar at his office in Moscow, February 5, 2018. (Ariel Schnabel)
February 13, 2018, 9:28 am
As Chabad emissaries expelled from Russia, chief rabbi sees a friend in Putin
With a rejuvenated Russian Jewish community, Rabbi Berel Lazar envisions technology as the next big step in reaching even the farthest-flung Siberian Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Stars of David are worked into the facade of the Soldiers Synagogue in Tomsk, Siberia, which was built by conscripted Jews and only recently returned to the local Jewish community, January 2018 (Cnaan Liphshiz)
February 4, 2018, 3:16 am
Reclaiming synagogue, Siberian Jews recall child soldiers who kept the faith
Century-old wooden building, recently returned to Jewish hands, symbolizes resilience in the face of one of the cruelest measures ever applied against community
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Visitors to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow viewing one of the many sculptures there depicting the history of Jewish life in Russia, May 21, 2013. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center/via JTA)
January 24, 2018, 5:47 am
A son of refuseniks chronicles the slow dissolve of Russia’s Jews
Examining a community that numbers one-tenth of its size in 1989, Maxim Shrayer notes the disappearance of Jewish names from the achievement rolls of science and the humanities
By Penny Schwartz
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center/via JTA)
November 8, 2017, 5:14 am
Moscow museum gives the full picture of Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution
While even Vladimir Putin has repeated some myths, Jews were highly represented in establishing Soviet rule — and they didn’t have much choice in the matter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
From left: Iya Rott, Valentin Chernykh, Vadim Chernykh, Svetlana Chernykh, Vladislav Chernykh, Petr Chernykh, Vladimir Rott, Taisya Chernykh in Jerusalem, May 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
May 24, 2017, 11:53 am
Why did a Russian Orthodox family restore a Siberian Jewish cemetery?
After memorializing the Jews who once lived just north of the Mongolian border, the Chernykh family is brought to Israel by Toronto Jews as token of thanks
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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