Roots, #18
July-December 2002
The magazine is opened by the section Cultural
Heritage. The first article of the section is written by head of the Chair
of modern Hebrew of the Jewish university in Moscow, Ph.D. Alexander Kryukov
and is called Kishon of Partachia, or Human Fate and Life of Satirist.
The author tells about course of life and creational development of famous
Israeli writer-satirist Efraim Kishon. The article is finished by a story by
Efraim Kishon Partachia, my Love.
Next article of this section Hovard Fast and his
Novel My Glorious Brothers is written by Raisa Tarasulla from Nizhni
Novgorod. The article tells about famous American writer Hovard Fast and
his novel about uprising of Maccabei in 167-142 BC My Glorious Brothers.
The section The Present and History is opened by the article by Ph.D. Vladimir Hasin from Saratov Massacre of 1905 in Saratov as an Upshot of Social Adaptation of Jews in Internal Provinces of Russian Empire. The author tells about history of colonization of internal provinces of Russian empire, in particular, of Saratov province, by the Jews, about mutual relations of Jews and local population, about social adaptation of Jews in conditions new for them.
The same
section contains the article From the History of Jewish Community of Tomsk
by Victor Yushkovsky (Tomsk). It consists of two essays. The first essay
that is called The Torah and Handicraft: Tomsk Haskala Century Ago
tells about creation in 1874 and history of Jewish state college in Tomsk. In
the second article The Last Synagogue the author tells about the only
synagogue of Tomsk that was not closed after 1917 revolution and about struggle
of Jewish community for the right to have its synagogue and practice its
religion in post-war years.
The section
Thoughts includes the article by Tatiana Zhurcheva from Samara Why
Lie doesnt Die, or Once More about Protocols of Zion Wizards The author
tells about new book by Israeli judge Hadassa Ben-Itto Lie that doesnt Want
to Die about centenary history of Protocols of Zion Wizards.
The
article Kibbutz: First Meeting by Michael Rabinovich from Smolensk is
included into section Israel with the Eyes of our Compatriots. This
work was written under impression of authors trip to Israel and tells about
kibbutzes as the exclusive social and economic phenomenon in the life of
Israeli society.
The
section Memoirs is opened by an extract from the book by Muscovite
author Sher (pseudonym) My Jewish Fate. The extract is called Portraits
of Dear Jewish Faces. Author recollects his trips to regions of Russia in
early 1990s and tells about the process of revival of Jewish community life in
the cities he visited, about community leaders who made their contribution into
Jewish revival.
The author
of the article Memoirs of a Lieutenant is the veteran of Great
Patriotic war Naum Vainshtein from Kostroma. The author tells about
things he 20-year youth saw and went through during the war.
The article by Michael Steklov from Smolensk A Lesson for All Nations is published in the next section Our Genealogies. The author tells about tragic events of the Great Patriotic war in the history of Jewish community of Smolensk region elimination of Jewish population of the region by fascists and their accomplices.
This issue of the magazine is finished by the section Opinion. Reviews. Criticism. Letters and reviews by the readers about materials of previous issues of magazine are presented in this section. Letters of V. Brilliant (Samara), S. Berkner (Voronezh), Ye. Slaventinsky (Rybinsk), R. Apatova (Kostroma), L. Ashkinazi (Moscow), L. Rodina (Yaroslavl), I. Dragieva (Veliky Novgorod), E. Izraileva (St. Petersburg), S. Leiferov (Kirov) are published in the section.