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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Jewish Women's Archive: This Day of Jewish American Heritage


Small community in Armenia
strives to preserve its heritage
Yasha Levine
Some of the last members of the Subbotnik community in Sevan, Armenia, stand in their old cemetery, which resembles a Jewish cemetery.
The Subbotniks, a rural community in the former Soviet Union who descended from Russian peasants that converted to Judaism two centuries ago, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.

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