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September 1, 2003

Jewish traditions are dying in the village of Iudino which is hardly surprising in rural Russia, where Soviet sympathies still run strong and Jewish populations rarely exceed a half dozen. But the fading of Jewish life in this town, known for its long and

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Yekaterinburg, Russia’s third largest city, has a small Jewish community, but it includes a surprisingly large number of the city’s most prominent leaders. Though many of these luminaries are thoroughly assimilated, they have helped make some of the city

Closed nuclear cities like Ozersk were a Soviet state secret and didn’t even appear on maps until the 1990s. Many of Ozersk’s Jews remain so scarred by Soviet-era fear that they continue to shun aid offered by world Jewry.

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