Lyubavichi. History, mysteries and true facts

The book is devoted to the history of Lyubavichi village, one of the most ancient places of Smolensk Oblast. A special attention is paid to the Jewish religious movement called Hasidic Judaism occurred on the territory of the village.

The book also studies Lyubavichi as a part of Belarus, the Great Purge on its territory, role of peasants in the Great Patriotic War and post-war revival. This title is addressed to historians, local history students and all those who are interested in the history of Smolensk land, the Orthodox Church and Hasidic Judaism.

It's a must-read book for anyone fascinated by Jewish culture and religion!

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The first and only journal in Russian about women in Islam

The first magazine in Russian dedicated to women in Islam.  It covers both – questions of religion and problems of everyday life. The magazine discusses traditions and place of women in life, gives practical advice on different situations and hesitations, tells inspiring life stories of successful Moslem women, also covers leisure, fashion, fitness, beauty, children upbringing – a wide range of topics, all stated in a very special sincere, serious and gentle manner.


What troubles Moslem women, what do they dream about, how do they look at the world – these and many other questions are raised on the pages of this magazine.

Paneriai diary 1941-1943

Paneriai diary 1941-1943

Until World War II, Vilnius was one of the most important European Jewish cultural, scientific, educational and rabbinic activity centers. The pre-World War II numbers are staggering: by 1939 about 58.000 Jews lived and worked in Polish Wilno. The atrocities of WWII and Nazi occupation destroyed Vilnius Jewish community almost completely, so only a few thousand Jews remained in the new capital of Soviet Lithuania.

During Nazi occupation, the arrested Jews from Vilnius ghetto would be first taken to Lukiszki Prison and then to Ponary (now Paneriai) where the Soviets had dug deep pits for fuel tank storage, for execution by German SS and SD units, Lithuanian police, and Lithuanian "self-defense" units.

Kazimierz SAKOWICZ was a Polish journalist who lived near the place of execution (called "base") and became a happenstance witness and chronicler of many massacres. On separate sheets of paper of different size, calendar sheets from 1941, July 11 to 1943, 6 November, Sakowicz left his inscriptions, placed in chronological order, which are called “K. Sakowicz Paneriai diary”. 

The diary describing mass massacres of Vilnius Jews in Paneriai and other war crimes was deciphered by the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum researcher dr. Rachile Margolis.

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