Jewish Moskow

Purpose of the publication - to acquaint the modern reader with all sorts of evidence about the participation of Jews in the life of the Russian capital, to collect the most important publication of the "Jews of Moscow" and "Jews in Moscow," written by Jewish authors in the late XIX-XX in the first half., Complementing their work modern investigators who continue working on this issue. The book opens with essays survey character. One of them - a kind of guide to the sights of the "Jewish Moscow" - written in our time local historian Margaret Lobovsky. The other, created a renowned public figure Samuel Vermel at the beginning of XX century. Shall be published from the manuscript preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Articles prerevolutionary authors dealing with specific periods and episodes in the history of "Jewish Moscow", supplemented by the publication of archival material, previously unknown to readers. Understand the feelings and experiences of Jewish people in the capital to help excerpts from the memoirs that are included in the book. Finally, over one hundred photographs relating to Jewish life in the old Moscow and in Moscow today, creating the effect of a living presence.