History

Documents, dates and events with their source and stated precision.

Stories and explainers

Composition of the public MVP.

Levi Yitzchak Schneerson: rabbi, exile and a grave in Almaty Story · The father of the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe: Yekaterinoslav, the 1939 arrest, exile in Kazakhstan and a grave in Almaty…
Kazakhstan and Israel: thirty years of working ties Story · From the establishment of relations on 10 April 1992 to embassies, declarations, the visa regime and the disputed episo…
Jews in Kazakhstan: community, censuses and exile Story · From Bukharan Jews and the Nikolayev soldiers to the censuses of the twentieth century, the war, exile and the Virgin L…
Bukharan Jews: the group, the language and the historical territories Story · Who Bukharan Jews are, why the name is a collective one, and why their spoken language is a dialect of Tajik rather tha…
Yiddish: a Germanic branch that absorbed a great many borrowed words Explainer · How Yiddish relates to the Germanic languages, where its 15-20 per cent Hebrew and Aramaic borrowing comes from, and wh…