The University of California researcher grew up in Brighton Beach where his grandparents “fled Czarist Russia and antisemitism in pursuit of a better life.” (JTA) — David Julius, a professor ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...

Born in czarist Russia, his university studies were interrupted by World War II, in which he participated in the conquest of Berlin. (JTA) — Yefim Haim Goldberg, a 106-year-old Jewish veteran of ...

TASS/. Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada on Thursday registered a bill prohibiting the names of cities and streets that date back to the times of Czarist Russia, that is, before March 1917, the ...

Why was making a deal with Russia’s communist leaders preferable to making a deal with Russia’s current nationalist leader? What is it about Putin that sets him apart from Brezhnev ...

TASS/. Ukrainian authorities have banned the release of the Russian film ‘Matilda’ featuring the story of romance between Crown Prince Nicholas [would-be Czar Nicholas II] and the young etoile ...

but it was mostly the fact that Russian masonic lodges were managed by foreign Grand Lodges, something that Czarist authorities saw as a danger. The masonic assemblies in Russia in the 1750-1760s ...

In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on March 8, 1917 ...