The stories of Jewish families of Siberia digitize

The Russian-Israeli project on the history of the Jewish population of small cities of Siberia will be presented at the Kansk Video Festival, which starts on August 23, on the site of the synagogue burned in 2016 will put a memorial sign.

The project "Siberian Islands. Kansk ”will be presented at the Kansk video festival, the organizers told Taiga.info. He won the Grants of the Russian Jewish Congress “Event”.

“ Among the goals of the project is to draw attention to the study of the past and real Kansky Jews, establish contacts with the local community and the search for representatives of the Kansk diaspora in Israel, raising the issue of interaction with the Kansk administration to restore or create a new synagogue,” the press service said. -By the beginning of the 1920s in Kansk, according to documentary sources, more than a thousand Jews lived. The local synagogue, built on the current Lenin Street in 1883, was later rebuilt under a residential building. In 2016, a wooden building destroyed a fire. At this place, the project participants will install a memorial sign. ”

The authors of the project plan to study the stories of individual families in order to restore the overall picture. In Kansk, the digitization of an abandoned Jewish cemetery, the base of which will become part of the "Siberian Islands", has already begun.

The festival will host two online dishes in the Zoom service. Scientists, journalists, public figures, specialists of the Kansky Museum of Lore and officials were invited to them.

Direct broadcasts will be held on the Soprom-TV channel on August 24 at 16:00 and August 29 at 16:30 Kansky time (Moscow time+4).

Recall that in 2020, due to the pandemic of coronavirus, the International Chan Video Festival will be held in the format of round-the-clock television broadcasting. At the opening of August 23, the online concert of the Israeli group Israel Klezmer Orchestra will be held under the leadership of the ex-member of the Oi Divine team, Hershon Leizerson. The program of the television program Soprom-TV is published on the website of the video festival.

Causky video festival is an annual review of experimental video works sent from around the world. In 2020, 35 short films from 18 countries participate in the competition program. The winner by tradition will receive a “gold palm secateur”.