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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Nashe Nasledstvo: Sinagogi SNG v Proshlom i Nastoiashchem
[ Nashe Nasledstvo: Sinagogi SNG v Proshlom i Nastoiashchem]
Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present Transl. from English by Yisrael Elliot Cohen
Moscow-Jerusalem: Mosty Kul`tury-Gesharim, 2002 175 p Serie: Biblioteca Judaica. Seriia "Sovremennye Issledovaniia" Hardcover. 21.5 x 29 cm ISBN: 5923730854 Language: Russian and English
This book deals with the fate of synagogue buildings on the territory of tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union, and the CIS for the period of a century. Some of the synagogues confiscated by the Soviet state are being returned to Jewish communities. The author leads the reader through the complex of problems of this period stressing the role of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, many of them are published here for the first time. The Appendix provides a list of synagogues functioning in the CIS today. Mikhail Beizer, born in St. Petersburg, after making aliya to Israel, earned his Ph.D. in the field of Soviet Jewish history. He is also the author of two books: The Jews of St. Petersburg and The Jews of Leningrad, 1917-1939. Bibliography. 162 illustration. Parallel text in Russian and English.