My Russian-Hebrew Dictionary
Object Day Berlin: Anatol Benjamin Schapiro
“Show us your story!” – Beginning in 2017, the Jewish participants in the Object Days project have answered this invitation by recounting their migration stories.
Anatol Benjamin Schapiro, born 19 June 1994, in Dillenburg, Hesse. Parents emigrated from Moscow in 1992. Studies social sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Stephan Pramme
My great-grandfather was a general in the Red Army. When the war started, he was assigned to evacuate military factories and rebuild them in Siberia. This allowed him to take his whole family there to safety. His daughter, my grandmother, gave me this dictionary, published in 1963. It is most likely the first Hebrew dictionary published in the Soviet Union and was written by my great-grandfather. He dedicated it to my grandfather. I learned Hebrew with this dictionary. In 2013 I went to Russia for a year to study Talmud at the Yezhiva. The book has served me well there.
Object Days: Berlin (7)
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Berlin
Jews in Berlin tell their migration story
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Liora Jaffe
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Valentin Lutset
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Esther Tchlakichvili
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Ella Nilova
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Dalia Grinfeld
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Anatol Benjamin Schapiro
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Anastassia Pletoukhina
