Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet dissident whose death sentence exposed the plight of Jews under communism
Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to ...
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Hanukkah in Soviet prisons
Some 150 people had entered it ... and they believed what they read. Because the Jews of the Soviet Union were not allowed to speak, the world believed that the flame of Judaism had died.
Long Islanders with Soviet roots hold fast to tradition of 'New Year's tree'
The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former ...
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A discotheque in Berlin founded by Soviet Jews finds new life
Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during Christmas.
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People We Meet: Shulamis Koyfman, Soviet Jewish refugee and longtime nurse
She remembers her first, difficult years in America. "You are not hungry. This is not Siberia. You are not in exile.." ...
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From Germany, a ‘Sopranos’ set in the world of a Jewish delicatessen
"The Zweiflers," playing at Jewish film festivals this January, follows a family in the deli business — and the patriarch's ...
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A discotheque in Berlin founded by Soviet Jews finds new life
Thirty-three years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed ... claiming too many people would recognize him, also came to Berlin as part of this Jewish migration, and soon, he found the Russian Disco.
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Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet dissident whose death sentence exposed the plight of Jews under communism
A large number of Soviet Jews applied for exit visas, but many were refused permission to emigrate while some who applied lost their jobs, making them vulnerable to charges of “social parasitism ...