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When the Noise of Children Returned to Moscow’s Choral Synagogue
A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.
Completed in 1906, after construction was stalled multiple times by the tsarist authorities, Moscow’s Choral Synagogue remains one of Russian Jewry’s most impressive works of architecture. During the Soviet era, it was one of very few synagogues permitted to function at all. Benyamin Goldschmidt, whose father became the congregation’s rabbi in 1993—only two years after the end of Communism—reminisces about bearing witness to the revival of Judaism in the city:
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When the Noise of Children Returned to Moscow’s Choral Synagogue
A rabbi’s son recalls the revival of Judaism in the Russian capital.