For centuries, Jews thrived in Khujand, Tajikistan. Now the city’s last Jew has died. Jura Abaev’s neighbors called him “Jura Ako,” meaning “older brother” in the local dialect.
In Moscow, a non-Jewish physicist recalls helping build the Soviet Union’s only yeshiva Evgeny Velikhov recounted for the first time publicly obtaining Mikhail Gorbachev’s permission for an event many had thought impossible.
Grave of influential Yiddish writer and Soviet resistance activist discovered at former gulag Researchers from Israel and Russia found the final resting place of Pinchus Kahanovich, known as Der Nister, at a former Soviet gulag.
