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 ...

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 ...

He was born Meer Genokh Moiseevich Vallakh, the son of a Jewish bank clerk in Polish Russia. On police dockets of Czarist Russia and most of the countries of Europe, he was many aliases—Ludwig ...

Czarist Russia bloodlessly desisted from attempts to colonize the West Coast and Alaska. However, U.S. hemispheric dominance has proved more difficult to enforce in Latin America, involving the U ...

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 ...