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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Siberian Jewish history

Russian dissident Pavel Kushnir died in a hunger strike in July 2024. (YouTube capture)
November 4, 2024, 8:14 am
Jewish pianist was first political prisoner in modern Russia to die in hunger strike
For posting anti-Putin videos on YouTube, Pavel Kushnir was imprisoned in Siberia. He died of starvation in protest of the war in Ukraine while awaiting trial; 11 people came to his funeral
By Matt Lebovic
Siberian Jews celebrate the opening of a new Jewish education center in Tomsk, Russia, Sept. 12, 2021. (Levy Kaminetzky via JTA)
September 17, 2021, 3:15 pm
Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk
About 200 Jewish children are enrolled in the institution, which features a robotics lab, modern furnishings, pottery workshops and table tennis stations
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The author and her husband on a break during the ride from Ulan Ude to Vladivostok at the Skovorodinskiy Rayon Station. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)
February 1, 2019, 3:02 pm
Our 10,000 kilometer, kosher Trans-Siberian honeymoon
The legendary rail journey across Russia allows tourists to see towns, nature and Jewish communities in action — and can easily be done without breaking Judaism’s dietary laws
By Rossella Tercatin
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
Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Baruch Ramatsky, holding the Torah scroll Ramatsky's family has kept hidden for the last 90 years, inside the synagogue of Tomsk, February 1, 2018. (Courtesy Chabad of Tomsk)
March 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed
On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker’s grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years
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
The Soldiers Synagogue in Tomsk Russia in January, 2018 (Cnaan Lipshiz/JTA)
February 1, 2018, 2:46 pm
Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers returned to Jewish community
Chief rabbi of Russia to hold ceremony in Tomsk completing transfer of one of the only wooden synagogues worldwide
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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