Re: Birobidzhan

[R.A.S. <richards...>]

Ah well, there goes another chunk of my confidence in the BBC then, alas.
(They really seem to be going downhill at an ever more alarming and
accelerating rate.)

And assuming what you say to be accurate, it's all rather sad indeed.


Richard

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On 24/10/2002 at 16:02 Ashkenazim wrote:

>How strange...full scale revival? flourishing?  There are less then 10000
>Jews now in Birobidzhan, and a great number of them leave the city each
>year. What for would Jews go to one of the poorest and hardest areas of
>Russia, particulary from Israel.
>They did have an All-Russian Festival of Jewish culture in Birobidzhan
last
>several years, but I am not sure they are able to organise more. There are
>no professional Jewish musicians in Birobidzhan now. Jewish leaders from
>Bir-n used to invite klezmer ensemble Simkha from Tatarstan, Kazan every
>year, and that was sometimes the only opportunity for the community to
>listen to something Klezmer-like.
>As an artistic leader of the All-Russian Jewish performers competition I
>need somebody from that area to participate. Every day I get letters from
>Jewish performers from Petrozavodsk, Novosibirsk, Tumen. I've never heard
>from Birobidzhan.
>I wonder what for people talk about the revival of Yiddish and Jewish
>culture in general if the situation it totally different! For getting
>foundation? then I am one of them. I am sure no funding could change the
>situation of Russian Jews, sad to say.
>Dear Jonathan, I could try to find people from Birobidzhan for you to ask
>direct
>questions to. I know, you speak Russian, so?
>About the JCC of Birobidzhan (in Russian only)
>http://www.shalom.omsk.su/city/birjan/001.shtml
>
>anyway, thank you for care
>paulina


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