«Jewish Observer» - LITERARY REVIEW

The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

12/31

June 2002
5762 Tammuz

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WASHING DIRTY JEWISH LINEN IN PUBLIC
Bad is never final, it can always be followed by worse. Not to let this worse come, we should try to change something.

Bad is never final, it can always be followed by worse. Not to let this worse come, we should try to change something.

FROM ARGENTINA -
WITH GRATITUDE
On behalf of thousands of Jewish families of Argentina Tzedaka Fund gratified Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and Association of Jewish religious organizations for 10 tons of matzos sent from Kiev to welcome Pesakh.

On behalf of thousands of Jewish families of Argentina Tzedaka Fund gratified Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and Association of Jewish religious organizations for 10 tons of matzos sent from Kiev to welcome Pesakh.

VANDALISM OR
«CANARD»?
Has there been a pogrom on the Kurenyovka cemetery? Who cares about graves of our ancestors at all? Will the community be able to arrange cooperation with the city authorities?

Has there been a pogrom on the Kurenyovka cemetery? Who cares about graves of our ancestors at all? Will the community be able to arrange cooperation with the city authorities?

FOUR
SPRINGS
Typewritten leaflets gave rise to new Jewish periodicals on the territory from Baltic Sea to Amur river and from Carpathians to Pamirs.

Typewritten leaflets gave rise to new Jewish periodicals on the territory from Baltic Sea to Amur river and from Carpathians to Pamirs.

Joseph Burg

UP TO 120!

BORIS DORFMAN

Joseph Burg was born in a Hassid family in the small town of Vizhnitsa in Austria-Hungary on the eve of WWI. His father floated timber on rafts along Carpathian rivers. Joseph went to heder, yeshiva, gymnasium. He described the events of 1939 - annexation of Austria by Germany and situation with Jew at that period - in Hebrew in the book "Poison".

Yury Kaplan

SHIVERING OF TEMPTATION

LEONID VYSHESLAVSKY

To 60th birthday anniversary of poet Yury Kaplan. Yury Kaplan started a sort of quietly but, as critics have correctly noticed, he was immediately heard by those who can and know to hear. "Yury Kaplan has single and purposeful verses which create a good live book", - his tutor Nikolai Ushakov wrote trying to promote this "live book" stuck in the labyrinths of censorship.

Haim-Nakhman Byalik

GREATEFUL ISRAEL AND ODESSA
TO HAIM - NAKHMAN BYALIK

Once this building bore another plaque - in memory of the brother of "great chief" and an ardent revolutionary who had stayed for some time in Odessa. Over long years nobody could even dream the time would come and the plaque on the Malaya Arnautskaya street 9 will be substituted by another one commemorating a great Jewish poet Haim-Nakhman Byalik.