People

Biographies, families and communities that left a mark in both countries.

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…
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…
The dombra: a plucked instrument and its name Explainer · What the word dombra means, why the instrument counts as plucked, and whose musical tradition it belongs to.