Location
Chisinau (Kishinev)
At the start of the twentieth century, Kishinev had more than seventy synagogues and about twenty yeshivot. Unlike many other cities in the Russian Empire, the Jews of Kishinev did not live in a ...
Location
Nikolaev
The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...
Site
Khabad Loubavith Synagogue of Moscow
Bolshaya Bronnaya ulitsa 6, Moscow Синагога на Большой Бронной – Религиозная Организация Еврейская Община Любавических Хасидов «Агудас Хасидей ХаБаД»
Location
Moscow
Due to the expulsion of Jews from Russia and their strict confinement within the “residential zone”, they were few Jews in Moscow prior to 1900, which explains the absence of a Jewish ...
Location
Vilnius
The capital of Vilnius, once known as the “Jerusalem of the east” has few Jewish monuments today. However, in the last few years, the Museum of the Gaon of Vilnius has made ...