Roots, #16
July-December 2001
The
magazine opens with the section dedicated to the memory of Prof. Yevgeny Garber from Saratov who died
in October 2001. The section contains an article by Chief Editor of the
magazine Semyon Avgustevich and an
article by son of Yevgeny Garber Ilya
Garber "The Word of Son". Yevgeny Garber memoirs "My Way to Science" are also
published here.
The
next section "Lectures" is
opened by a lecture "About
Tradition of Pharisaical Continuity in Pirkey-Avot by Leonid Mazikh from
Israel where the author analyzes the influence of Greek philosophy and
Hellenism traditions as a system of ideas on the rabbis thought. This lecture
was read by L. Mazikh during the Eight Annual International Interdisciplinary
Conference on Jewish Studies on January 2001 in Moscow.
Julia Matushanskaya
from Kazan in her article "Josef Flaviy as Jewish National Historian and Statesman"
tells about Josef Flaviy formation and activity as Jewish historian, about his
inner searches and his political activity during the Great Rising (66-70).
The
next lecture "Judaic in the Novels
of Isaac Bashevis Zinger (From the Mode of Life to the Understanding of
Being)" by Bronislav
Tabachnikov from Voronezh gives the panorama of images and realities of
Isaac Bashevis Zinger novels. The author emphasizes that each of novels by I.B.
Zinger is original encyclopedia of Jewish life.
The
section "Articles. Researches"
contains the article by AIek Epshtein
from Israel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Problems of Jewish Education Development in Pluralistic
Societies: Israel and Russia Experience" where the author analyzes
experience of Jewish education development in Russia and Israel and its
problems.
The
same section contains an article by
Vladimir Dvoryanov from Penza and
Tatiana Avgustevich from Saratov "Model of Teenager Training for
Repatriation to Israel". Authors of the article tell about problems, which
the new repatriate teenager meets in Israel, and suggest the ways of solving
some of them.
In the section "Thoughts" the article by Ilia Yagniskiy from Belgorod "Do Russian
Jews Have the Future? (Polemical Notes)" is
published. The author analyses the publications of Russian researchers (in
particular E. Satanovsky, R. Ryvkina, V. Sobkin, S. Busygina) who study
problems associated with Jewish national self-consciousness and national
self-identification of members of modern Jewish community of Russia.
The
next section "Our Genealogies"
is opened by an article by Aizik
Bargteil from Perm "The Hymn of Jewish Partisans" where the
author tells the history of Jewish partisans' Hymn. The words of the Hymn were
written by a Jewish poet Girsh Glik. The Hymn was executed on the melody by
composers Daniil and Dmitry Pokras.
The
second article of the section is
"The Ordinary Jews" by Ruven Evilevich (Israel). The author tells
about the fate of Jewish Family of Lia Pasternak and David Lapidus from Samara.
And
the last article of the section
"Boris Zeikin" by Ekaterina Libinzon from Nizhny Novgorod is
dedicated to the memory of a talented poet from Nizhny Novgorod Boris Zeikin.
The
section "Memoirs and
Documents" is opened by an article by Lyubov Zhuk from Nizhny Novgorod "National Upbringing in My
Family" where the author tells about formation of her national
identity and about events exerted influence on this formation.
Efim Podoksik from
Kostroma in his article "The War in the Fate of My Family" remembers the events
of the first days of Great Patriotic War.
The
same section contains the essay by Oleg
Kostin from Maloyaroslavets "Be Lucky, David!" where the author
tells about his friend David Agranovich who has repatriated to Israel.
The issue is completed by the section "Opinions. Reviews. Criticism". The section is opened by detailed and complete review by Vladimir Dvoryanov from Penza on "Roots" N13. Moreover, the section contains letters by Yuriy Ermilov (Ivanovo), Oleg Kostin (Maloyaroslavets), Steve Levin (Israel) and Anna Brzhezovskaya (S. - Petersburg).