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	Russian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russian is primarily spoken in Russia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR.
		Russian is still used as a lingua franca in Afghanistan by a few tribes.
		Russian is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the unrecognized Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_language (3363 words)

	List of Russian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the formation of the Soviet Union, there were some 2.5 million Soviet Jews, mostly Ashkenazi.
		After its collapse, many emigrated to Israel, USA and Germany, though Russia still has one of the larger Jewish populations in the world.
		History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Russian_Jews (386 words)

	Jews
		The Jews are a people who trace their descent from the biblical Israelites and who are united by the religion called Judaism.
		Jews had long been accustomed to living in neighborhoods of their own, for security and for ready access to a synagogue.
		Jews entered the life of the Western world with keen enthusiasm; they contributed significantly to commercial, scientific, cultural, and social progress.
	www.mb-soft.com /believe/txo/jews.htm (4553 words)

	Russian Jews
		Some say that originally the Jews (the Ten Lost Tribes) were forced by the Assyrians into the Russian area in 721 BC or because of the Babylonian Exile in 586 BC.
		The Jews used the Promise of Abraham as their claim to the land and the Muslims did the same by rewriting portions of the Torah into the Koran but exchanging Ismael for Isaac as the child of promise.
		Jews had been fleeing from Russia and then, with the holocaust of WWII, Jews by the thousands attempted to migrate to British controled Palestine.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/essays/cot/t2w30jewsrussia.htm (774 words)

	Jews and Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jews couldn’t leave their residence and were totally isolated and barred from the social life.
		Russian society doesn’t want to re-think their attitudes and to understand that altering the attitudes toward Jews, as well as toward other minorities in Russia is essential for true democracy.
		Russian teachers might be educated and instructed by foreign specialists on the anti-racial education.
	www.elisonweb.com /jews_and_economy.htm (3290 words)

	The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation - The Nineteenth Century - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jews still had to fight for their rights on the state level, and they continued to face various forms of prejudice nationwide.
		There were Jews in the North and Jews in the South, Jews who supported slavery and Jews who condemned it, Jews who fought for the Union and Jews who fought for the Confederacy.
		In America a Jew's faith was not registered with the state, as it was in most of Europe, and observance depended upon the individual.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/judaism.htm (2562 words)

	Russian Jews - Johnson's Russia List 1-1-03
		With his Dvesti let vmeste, or 200 Years Together, a historical study of the relationship between Russians and Jews in Russia, Alexander Solzhenitsyn calls for a better understanding and mutual empathy between the two nationalities.
		I should say that, indeed, there was plenty of bitterness in early reviews - moreover, judging by the rate of their appearance, you might think that this bitterness was provoked, even before the book was read to the end, by the mere fact that I had taken up the issue at all.
		He does not seem to care even whether there is still anyone left in the ring or whether Russian Jews, having acquired the Russian language and culture, have fully assimilated.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7001-18.cfm (3087 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Russian language
		Russian (Russian: русский язык, russkiy yazyk, ['ru.skʲɪj jɪ.'zɨk]) is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages.
		According to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, Russian is classified as a level III language in terms of learning difficulty for native English speakers, requiring approximately 780 hours of immersion instruction to achieve intermediate fluency.
		According to the United States 2000 Census, Russian was reported as language spoken at home by 1.50% of population, or about 4.2 million, placing it as #10 language in the United States.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Russian_language (3171 words)

	High on Forbes' list
		MOSCOW - A list of Russian billionaires that features at least nine Jewish tycoons has some Russian Jews worried that the list may reinforce anti-Semitic stereotypes.
		But some Jews said they're proud that members of their group have assumed leading roles in the business community.
		Many of the tycoons who made it to the Forbes list were outraged by the very fact of the publication, Russian media reported.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040521/jews.shtml (327 words)

	Russian Ethnic Relations, Jews - Johnson's Russia List 1-17-03
		Antisemitism, Xenophobia and Religious Persecution in Russia's Regions 2001 (UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, September 2002).
		While the primary focus is on the situation of Russian Jews, information is also provided on persecution of other ethnic and religious minorities -- especially Armenians and Meskhetian Turks (in southern Russia), Chechens, Roma, non-white foreigners (mainly students), and various unorthodox Christian confessions.
		The most prominent successor organization to the RNU seems to be "Russian Rebirth," which acquired official registration in 2001 in several provinces.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7022-7.cfm (699 words)

	NCSJ - Russian Jews Eye Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to Russian electoral law, half of the seats in the 450-member Duma are distributed proportionally to those party lists that capture more than 5 percent of the national vote.
		Breaking the standard of neutrality, the Russian Jewish Congress issued a statement two months ago urging voters not to support the Communists, whose leaders are known for their anti-Semitic remarks.
		“Jews are always sensitive when such situations occur,” said Felgenhauer, adding that some of his Jewish acquaintances are more preoccupied these days with finding out how to apply for an Israeli passport than with the electoral prospects of various parties.
	www.ncsj.org /auxpages/112703JTA_elections.shtml (1053 words)

	The Movies and Ethnic Representation: Jews: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
		Russian Jewish immigrants, Jake and Gitl, encounter trials and tribulations as they discard their old world traditions and adjust to life in America in 1896.
		But the actor discovers the horrifying truth and as he rehearses with a group of children in what is to be the last performance of their lives, he refuses to play a role in the Nazi's charade.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/imagesjews.html (11978 words)

	Russian National Holidays
		Russian holidays are a kind of a cocktail of old, official and unofficial, professional and private, religious and secular.
		On some years, it occurs on or close to with Russian Orthodox Easter, so some people celebrate in church while some attend customary demonstrations.
		Muslims, Jews and Buddhists also celebrate their feasts without fear of secular authorities.
	russian-crafts.com /customs/russian-holidays.html (315 words)

	Resource Information Center Russia: Information on the Treatment of Jews in the Russian FederationRussia: Information ...
		Overt anti-Semitic statements from government officials were common, one member of the Russian Parliament calling openly for the murder of Jews.
		According to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, however, there has been a noticeable decrease in violent anti-Semitic incidents since the election of Vladimir Putin in March 2000.
		The arrest of Vladimir Gusinsky, an independent media mogul critical of the Putin government and the President of the World Jewish Congress, was seen by many as an attempt to intimidate Russian Jews as well as critics of the regime.
	www.uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/RUS01002.htm (467 words)

	Russia; Jews and communism 11.04.03
		Alberto Gutierrez adds to his previous statement about the role of-Jews in the Russian and US Communist parties: "Even "Fiddler on the Roof", the Norman Jewison film with a good musical score and the excellent performance of Topol, relates Jews to the upheaval that took place in Imperial Russia about one hundred years ago.
		Not all Russian Jews were Zionists, but it was inside the KGB where the obsession with conspiracies never ended.
		He says that the Jews have a historical right to their biblical homeland, which is the crux of the present Middle East crisis.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Russia/russia_JewsAndCommunism(110403).html (758 words)

	Schindlers List
		After the movie Schindler`s List was made, Anna spoke to thousands of school children in Virginia about her own sad experiences as a teenager.
		She was 14 but registered as being 2 years older and as a metal worker - all so she could survive as essential for the war industry.
		Oscar Schindler - to be honest not one of the most devout sons of the church - was buried in the Catholic churchyard on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, in the presence of hundreds of weeping Schindler Jews.
	auschwitz.dk /Schindlerslist.htm (7602 words)

	NCSJ - Jews Top Forbes List of Russia's Rich
		MOSCOW (JTA) — A list of Russian billionaires that features at least nine Jewish tycoons has some Russian Jews worried that the list may reinforce anti-Semitic stereotypes.
		According to Alexander Brod, the head of the European Union's project to monitor anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Russia, the notion that Jews are disproportionately represented among Russia's business elite has long been a staple of anti-Semitic propaganda.
		But some Jews said they are proud that some members of their group have assumed leading roles in the business community.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/051704JTA_Forbes.shtml (473 words)

	The condition of Russian Jews in Israel (by a Russian Jew living in Israel)
		"Half of them are KGB agents, half belong to the Russian Mafia and the rest are prostitutes", "It is not the great emigration that we were expecting!", "All our economic problems are due to the Russians!" was the main line of the Israeli press.
		The result of this campaign was discrimination and isolation of the Russians immigrants.
		The "Communist" leadership was convinced that most of the "Russians" would support the right wing parties, and to work among them would be a loss of time and money.
	www.marxist.com /israel-russian-jews101100.htm (1277 words)

	Judaism and Jewish Resources - Andrew Tannenbaum
		Jews for Judaism fights against missionary cult groups that try to draw Jews away from Judaism.
		NCSJ advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Eurasia.
		The Aleph Institute serves Jews in difficult situations, including families in crisis, Jews in the military, and Jews in Prison.
	shamash.org /trb/judaism.html (7752 words)

	Russian Studies at Bucknell University
		The old Russian Empire has undergone a major revolution.
		Unlike the earlier revolution, however, which removed the nations of the USSR from the world community, the second revolution has brought them back into that community.
		The Russian studies program is geared toward teaching students about these changes.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /russian (98 words)

	Amazon.com Books: Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		A&A THE FIRST ENCOUNTER Muhammad and the Jews Jews had been living in the Arabian Peninsula centuries before...
		Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman (Paperback - Aug 21, 2001)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&index=books&field-keywords=Jews&page=1 (547 words)

	j. - Some worry that listing of super-rich Russian Jews is bad news
		A list of Russian billionaires that features at least nine Jewish tycoons has some Russian Jews worried that the list may reinforce anti-Semitic stereotypes.
		“In the eyes of the public, this creates a wrong impression that Jews in Russia are all extremely rich, and our community is prospering,” said Mark Birman, 74, a retired Soviet army colonel, about the list published Thursday, May 13, by Forbes magazine.
		To the contrary, I feel sort of proud that there are some Jews among the business leaders.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22491/format/html/displaystory.html (489 words)

	Encyclopeadia Judaica on Jews and Communism
		The Encyclopedia Judaica, published in Jerusalem, Israel, by Jews, is available at most large public libraries and is in English.
		On page 794 of the Encyclopedia Judaica, this Jewish reference book then goes to list the Jews prominent in the upper command of the Russian Communist party: these included Maxim Litvinov, (Later foreign minister of Soviet Russia); Grigori Zinoviev, Lwev Kamenev, Jacob Sverdlov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Karl Radek, amongst many others.
		The organizer of the Revolution was Trotsky, who prepared a special committee to plan and prepare the coup which brought the Communists to power.
	www.white-history.com /hwr61i.htm (509 words)

	JEWISH GENEALOGY
		History of Jews in Austria/Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich
		Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
		The Fate of the Jews in the British Channel Islands during the German Occupation 1940-1945
	www.kesh.com /hnoh/JEWISHGENEALOGY7.html (1199 words)

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		It was in the midst of the Russian Revolution and speakers were addressing a crowd in Petrograd from the top of a railway flatbed car.
		Whether it be Christians denying the validity of Judaism or Jews denying the validity of Christianity, we cannot address the problem of "holocaust denial" by pointing the finger at each other.
		They firmly believed that the elimination of Jews was justified and necessary, and gleefully exacted their absurd antisemitic beliefs by not just killing Jews, but brutally tormenting them on the way to their deaths.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~holoweb/logs/Apr96.html (15966 words)

	Welcome to Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jewish sages say that in every Jew there is a spark, curious, daring and never ceasing to exist.
		For Jews, Torah has always been a Tree of Life guaranteeing that those who uphold it will not only survive, but thrive.
		Our goal is to unite Jews from the former Soviet Union into a caring Jewish community, where each individual grows to reach his/her greatest potential.
	www.russianjews.org /aboutus/index.asp (405 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/russian/central-executive-committee/the-incomplete-list
		When I saw the information in this post, I assumed it was using a propaganda technique that I call the "incomplete list." So since I was going to be using the library anyway, I decided to pick one of Soviet government agencies on these lists and see what I could learn about it.
		So yes, Jews were over-represented considering what a small minority they were, but the crazily high percentages implied in the above post are obviously obtained by using incomplete lists.
		And, of course, the Soviets began persecuting religious Jews early on, and in decades closer to our own time the Soviet Union became one of the principal anti-Semitic regimes.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.py?orgs/russian/central-executive-committee/the-incomplete-list (273 words)

	ICQ List - Jews Everywhere
		I am very interest in Torah and would appreciate a listing of times when Torah chat is available.
		Our goal is to reach out to every single Jew and to bring out the amazing potential that you have with your Jewish soul.
		I think Torah is made for human beings, unfortunetelytoday lots of people have lost their humanity.
	members.tripod.com /~torahc/tc/icqlist.html (725 words)

	Felist.Com : Catalog : List "The Orthodox congregation of Russian Jews in New York" (lit.kehilasmy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		The Orthodox congregation of Russian Jews in New York
		This list contains new articles in English from the website of Kehilas Moreshes Yaakov, The Orthodox Congregation of Russian Jews, as well as articles that were not posted on the website due to topic, style or time sensitivity.
	felist.com /catalog/lit.kehilasmy (126 words)

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