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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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January 2002
5762 Shvat

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SHALL WE
UNITE?
Information on the international conference «Jews of silence - Jews of triumph. The Soviet Jewry: yesterday, today, tomorrow» held in Moscow.

Information on the international conference «Jews of silence - Jews of triumph. The Soviet Jewry: yesterday, today, tomorrow» held in Moscow.

DOWNFALL OF
STEREOTYPES
40% of Israelis think they can learn something from «Russian» repatriates. The same number of the olim is ready to gain something from old residents.

40% of Israelis think they can learn something from «Russian» repatriates. The same number of the olim is ready to gain something from old residents.

ASSEMBLY,
DAY BY DAY
While opening the Assembly, the President of the WJC Edgar Bronfman pointed out that holding the Assembly in Jerusalem was a manifestation of solidarity of Jewish world with Israel.

While opening the Assembly, the President of the WJC Edgar Bronfman pointed out that holding the Assembly in Jerusalem was a manifestation of solidarity of Jewish world with Israel.

WHAT HAVE
WE ATTAINED?
Many repatriates discovered with horror that in Israel they meet the same anti-Semitic offences from non-Jews who had arrived from the former USSR.

Many repatriates discovered with horror that in Israel they meet the same anti-Semitic offences from non-Jews who had arrived from the former USSR.

WHY DO WE DISTURB OUR WOUNDS?

VICTORIA VOITENKO

We gathered near the synagogue building on the 29th of November, 2001, and in a slow column of 6 hundred people we moved to the former Sennaya Square of the town. The day was sunny and completely different from the one 60 years ago, when more than 7 thousand children, young men and women, pregnant women and people of very old age were driven to this square by the Gestapo order. The tragedy of the Jewish population of Kerch and the nearest villages started since that day.

THE MUSEUM OF PERETZ MARKISH IN POLONNOYE HAS CELEBRATED ITS ANNIVERSARY - IT'S THREE YEARS AND THREE MONTHS OLD

SEMEN BENZIANOV

The only museum in Ukraine and in the world of Peter Markish, a Jewish poet, writer and dramatist, classic of national literature in Yiddish, was opened in October, 1998, in the ancient town of Polonnoye, a former Jewish-Ukrainian town in the Volynskaya province. The museum is situated in one of the two rooms of the Polonsky Jewish cultural association named after the poet, in the former building of the main choral synagogue of the town.