Welcome to the kingdom of snow and a treasure box of unique Jewish stories!

Today at 11:00 AM (ET)

Join the BZD and tour guide Evgenia Kempinski on a Virtual Tour of the Jews of Siberia. Siberia is a large region of Russia that extends from the Ural Mountains in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. Usually, it is only associated with frost, snow, prisons, and forests. The first Jews in Siberia were exiled from Moscow as early as the 17th century for political or criminal offenses. Some Jews came to Siberia by choice, trying to escape the pogroms and poverty of the Pale of Settlement. It’s hard to believe, but to bypass the official ban, some Jews got fake documents to state themselves as criminals sentenced to Siberian exile.

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