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This issue of the magazine includes:
• Interview: Natalia Yukhneva
St. Petersburg historian and ethnographer Natalia Yukhneva tells the story of her struggle against the unofficial taboo on the Jewish theme in Soviet scientific publications in the 1980s.
• Review: The Magazine New Jewish School, St. Petersburg
The development of a Jewish education system in the former Soviet Union during the last decade created the need for a forum for discussions among all people involved in the process, a place where they can exchange information, experience, and methodological materials. The pedagogical magazine New Jewish School, published in St. Petersburg since 1998, is trying to play such a role.
• In Memoriam: Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Russia and the Jews
The article analyzes the works of Fridrikh Gorenshtein, probably the most significant modern Russian-Jewish writer, who passed away on March 2, 2002 in Berlin.
• Synopses: Two New Books
The magazine presents brief reviews of a monograph, recently published in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, about the Jewish theme in Soviet cinematography by prominent Russian cinema scholar Miron Chernenko; as well as of a new novel by Israeli author Feliks Kandel, issued by the Jerusalem-Moscow publisher Gesharim.
• Jewish Calendar of Significant Dates: May–June 2002
• Bibliography: 55 New Books
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