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The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

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November 2001
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On one hand, Israel intends to bring one million of repatriates more, and it is not a secret that many of them won't be Jews. On the other hand, many express doubts about strangers coming into the country.

On one hand, Israel intends to bring one million of repatriates more, and it is not a secret that many of them won't be Jews. On the other hand, many express doubts about strangers coming into the country.

PRESIDENT TURNS HIS FACE TO COMMUNITY
President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma twice for last two weeks had meetings with Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine Yaakov Dov Bleich.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma twice for last two weeks had meetings with Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine Yaakov Dov Bleich.

FROM JERUSALEM
WITH HOPE
The General Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WEC) was held from October 30 to November 1 in Jerusalem

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Neither citizenship and nationality, nor the country of residence and ethnic origin, nor the language and the topic. None of them is the universal factor that undoubtedly determines that a certain author belongs to a certain culture, especially to the Jewish one.

Neither citizenship and nationality, nor the country of residence and ethnic origin, nor the language and the topic. None of them is the universal factor that undoubtedly determines that a certain author belongs to a certain culture, especially to the Jewish one.

WE WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO SURVIVED

ARI GALPERT

I am writing about the book "We were the only ones who survived" by Boris Zabarko with tears in my eyes. Because me, Ernest (Ari) Galpert, and my wife Tilda (her maiden name was Akkerman) were those "who survived". Both of us are Transcarpathian natives, were born in Mukachevo and lived there till March 1944, till the beginning of the Holocaust.

The art - publicistic almanac of the Institute of Jewish Studies

EGUPETS No 8

ALEXANDER NAIMAN

Philosopher S.Averintsev's article is the introduction to the current issue of the feature and publicistic almanac of the Institute of Jewish Studies. It is about the persecution of believers in the USSR. The prose section includes reminiscences (forbidden in Soviet times) of G.Snegiryov "Autoportrait 66", a story by I.Lesovaya, a Jerusalem essay by T.Akhtman, "The swan song" by G.Aronov and anecdotes on the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster edited by the famous producer B.Zholdak.

I DID NOT WANT TO BE A JEW

OLEG KOZEROD

Events, the importance of which is difficult to overestimate, are happening in modern Jewish studies. The publication of the book "I didn't want to be a Jew" was one of such events. It is a translation of reminiscences of Uray Spitzer, a famous social and cultural figure of postwar Slovakia.

WE ARE ALL FROM SMALL TOWNS

ALEXANDER NAIMAN

The shtetl's unique world, including culture, way of life, architecture and arts, has been under study for several years in the CIS already. The most important trend in this study is to collect memories of those who still remember a Jewish town of the last century. One of such memories or evidence is given in the book of the journalist Boris Khandros. The book is called "A town that does not exist any more".