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Goldman's mother Taube Bienowitch had been married before to a man with whom she had two daughters—Helena in 1860 and Lena in 1862. When her first husband died of tuberculosis, Taube was devastated. Goldman later wrote: "Whatever love she had had died with the young man to whom she had been married at the age of fifteen." [4]
In his 1998 book Russia in Collapse, Solzhenitsyn criticized the Russian far-right's obsession with anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic conspiracy theories. [100] In 2001, Solzhenitsyn published a two-volume work on the history of Russian-Jewish relations (Two Hundred Years Together 2001, 2002). [101] The book triggered renewed accusations of anti ...
Led a rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin (Jewish father) Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. Karl Radek, Soviet politician [4] [8] [17] Yevgeny Roizman, deputy of the Russian State Duma, mayor of Yekaterinburg (Jewish father) Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik ...
Pasternak fell in love with Ida Wissotzkaya, a girl from a notable Moscow Jewish family of tea merchants, whose company Wissotzky Tea was the largest tea company in the world. Pasternak had tutored her in the final class of high school. He helped her prepare for finals.
The Jewess And The Captain is a 1994 documentary, directed by Ulf von Mechow [1] about a Holocaust love affair between Ilse Stein, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl, and Willi Schultz, the Nazi captain in charge of the Minsk Ghetto. After the Holocaust, Ilse Stein became a minor celebrity and the subject of two romance novels.
The book won the 1993 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category. [7] Hesse and Letters from Rifka were awarded the 2016 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association , which recognizes the best children's book published in the past twenty years that did not receive a major award during its time.
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is a 2012 book by Masha Gessen about Vladimir Putin and his rise to power and reign. Gessen's analysis of Putin is mostly speculative, but they carefully investigate his own revealing accounts of his life, and they use interviews with people who knew Putin, before he rose to power, to form their conclusions.
The fourth largest Russian-Jewish community exists in Germany with a core Russian-Jewish population of 119,000 and an enlarged population of 250,000. [192] [193] [194] In the 1991–2006 period, approximately 230,000 ethnic Jews from the FSU immigrated to Germany. In the beginning of 2006, Germany tightened the immigration program.