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Russian Jews: The Confessional Situation in the Late Twentieth Century

Author(s): Kozlov, Semen la.

Date: 2001

Topics: Main Topic: Other

Abstract: The Law of the Russian Federation "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations" (1997) asserts that Judaism—the national religion of the Jews [evrei]—alongside Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, is one of the religions traditional to Russia. And this is indisputably so. On various territories entering today into the composition of the Russian Federation (not to mention those that had been in the composition of the Russian Empire and the USSR), Jews settled as far back as the New Era [the time of Christ] and in subsequent centuries (the North Caucasus, Dagestan, the area along the northern coast of the Black Sea [Prichernomor'e] and around the Sea of Azov [Priazov'e]; and the lands that entered into the Khazar Khanate, where Judaism was the state religion in the eighth-tenth centuries).

Иудаизм в современной России: основные структуры и направления

Translated Title: Judaism in Russia: Past and Present

Author(s): Козлов, Семен Яковлевич

Date: 2000

Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Hassidim, Chabad-Lubavitch, Religious Denominations, Religious Belief, Religious Observance and Practice, Jewish Community

Abstract: This report contains a short description of Judaism as a theological, ethical and juridical system, as well as main stages of its history, of modern trends in its development, particularly, of
its traditional and reformist segments. A considerable attention is devoted to Khasidic branch
of Judaism, namely to the Khabad-Lubavich movement, because it plays an important and
ambivalent role in the Judaic communities of the post-Soviet Russia. The report demonstrates
activities of main all-Russian Judaist organizations, and analyzed their mutual relations. It is
noticed, that really religious, or, at least, practicing Jews, represent only a minor fraction in
the contemporary Russian Jewry, while the predominant part of it is composed of practically
religiously indifferent people.

Российские евреи: конфессиональная ситуация в конце XX в

Translated Title: Russian Jews: The confessional Situation of the end of Twentieth Century

Author(s): Козлов, Семен Яковлевич

Date: 2000

Topics: Religious Observance and Practice, Denominations, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Евреи Москвы в 90-е годы XX-го века: действительно ли происходит религиозный ренессанс?

Translated Title: The Jews of Moscow in the 1990s: Is the Religious Renaissance Really Taking Place?

Author(s): Козлов, Семен Яковлевич

Date: 1999

Topics: Jewish Revival, Religious Observance and Practice, Outreach, Main Topic: Identity and Community