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Theodor Herzl's Balkan Trail
Theodor Herzl's Balkan Trail There are cities that do not try to dazzle the tourist from the first minute. You have to walk them on foot, feel their breath, listen to the murmur of old streets, stand on the riverbank, peer into ancient fortresses.…
A Unique Book for History Lovers
At the Tel Aviv office of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews, a presentation was held for Markiel Fazylov's new book Israel: On the Bukharian Street . Despite the wartime situation, the presentation drew several members of the Writers' Union of…
A Relay of Good Deeds
New York hosted a warm evening honoring the activists of the women's organization Esther HaMalka, which unites the women of the Bukharian-Jewish community around the ideals of kindness, mutual aid, enlightenment, and the preservation of national…
Our People
Rafael Elizarov
Founder of the family line, teacher and keeper of ancient texts. He spent his life collecting documents and lineage records that form the foundation of our archive. He survived World War I and helped transfer community archives from Samarkand to Tashkent.
The Boomerang of Memory
A person dies when the last memory of him dies. In the 1980s in Rehovot, where I settled with my family, a so-called "Russian club" came into being. This singular idea, emblematic of the high cultural aspirations of the "Russians" of that…
Rafael Elizarov
Founder of the family line, teacher and keeper of ancient texts. Throughout his life he gathered documents and genealogical records that became the foundation of our archive. He survived the First World War and helped move community archives from Samarkand to…
Yosef Elizarov
War correspondent and historian. After 1945 he devoted himself to reconstructing the family chronicle.
Our Creativity
A DANGEROUS TIME
"Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days." King Solomon (Kohelet) My father's story: It was in the early nineteen-twenties. My younger brother Neriya and I saddled our horses, loaded them with khurjuns full of tea,…
Poems by Dina Elizarova
A notebook of lyric verse in Russian and Tajik — copied out by Dina herself during her postgraduate years.
