We recently shared about the Mashchenko family, Subbotnik Jews who recently came on aliyah. We're happy to say that Lyubov Konchakova is another Subbotnik Jew who just arrived in Israel a few weeks ago, settling in Nof Hagalil. In fact, back in Vysoky, Russia, Konchakova was...
Sergey and Maria Mashchenko and their 10 year old son David, a Subbotnik Jewish family from Vysoky, Russia, have made the journey to their new life in Israel. It was a journey of dedication, commitment and an indomitable spirit. After a brief stop in an...
The story of the Katz family characterizes the history of Vissoky Jews and the way in which their community was involved in the lives of the other neighboring Jews in the area. [caption id="attachment_171995" align="alignleft" width="285"] Yevgeny & Svetlana at a Voronezh synagogue [/caption] In the Great Synagogue...
The story of the Katz family characterizes the history of Vissoky Jews and the way in which the Subbotnik community was involved in the lives of the other neighboring Jews in the area. The Subbotniks were peasants in southern Russia who embraced Jewish practice and converted...
We're excited that past Shavei Israel emissary Eldad (Artem) Fedorchuk will be reprising his role as emissary for the Subbotnik Jews in Russia! The Subbotniks were peasants in southern Russia who embraced Jewish practice and converted to Judaism more than 200 years ago under the Czarist...
Anna Lazarevna Bocharnikova, one of the community leaders of Vysoki, Russia who came to Israel to make aliyah (formal immigration to Israel) almost 9 months ago, will mark July 4th, 2019 as one of the most special days in her life. This was the day...
Shavei Israel: Here’s the latest installment of our historical and ethnographic report about the history of Vysoki, Russia’s biggest location of the community of the Subbotnik Jews who embraced Judaism several centuries ago and continued to keep their Jewish identity during all these years in the...
Our first meeting with Reuven Yaari took place in the 'Shavei Israel' office shortly after he arrived in Israel from the small town of Reni in the Odessa province of southern Ukraine and settled here with his uncle's family. Since then several years have passed. Today,...
Tuesday, August 22 is a date that Tamara Sobyleva will never forget. That’s the day she received her teudat zehut – her Israeli identification card – ending a decade-long process that has been both joyous and bittersweet for the 57-year-old former resident of Vysoki, Russia....
In the second of a two part series, we profile Nadia Shishliannikov, a young Subbotnik Jew in Israel to whom Shavei Israel has given a generous scholarship to assist with her education. Nadia is 22-years old and made aliyah from Russia in 1999 at the...
