Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow

$Alexander Klyachin listens to and Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum at her institution in Moscow, Russia on Sept. 30, 2019. (Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images)$

‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board

Alexander Klyachin has not served in any Jewish community leadership roles.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 26, 2021 10:31 am

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Major-General Matvey Weinrub, left, and writer Konstantin Simonov on the Hallesche-Tor-Brücke Bridge over the Landver Canal in Berlin, Germany in May 1945. (From the collection of the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)

Moscow’s Jewish museum uploads previously unseen photos of Berlin’s Soviet occupiers

The unscripted pictures were to be shown at a festive launch of the 75th Victory Day, but have been made accessible online because of the COVID-19 lockdown.

May 12, 2020 5:26 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Rabbi Berel Lazar and Victor Vekselberg attendint the unveiling of a Holocaust monument at Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center on June 4, 2019. (Photo: The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)

Moscow gets first major Holocaust monument

President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling in a city where Soviet authorities had rarely acknowledged the genocide as such.

June 4, 2019 9:51 pm

Mother and daughter skipped crashed Russia flight for Judaism seminar

February 13, 2018 6:42 am

What was the Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution? This Moscow museum gives a full picture.

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 6, 2017 5:08 pm

PJ Library families in Moscow receive free tickets to Jewish museum

December 25, 2016 3:21 pm

UNESCO awards tolerance prize to Moscow Jewish museum

November 23, 2016 7:10 am

Senior Russian rabbi accuses Ukrainian president of ‘using Jewish card’

December 27, 2015 4:17 pm

Russian court says U.S. must return disputed Schneerson texts

May 23, 2014 9:14 am

Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish

June 19, 2013 11:13 am

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