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Jewish Emigres Foster Jewish Heritage
February 10, 2004Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friendWhen Anna Berezina chose to publicly embrace her Jewish heritage at home in Russia, her grandmother panicked.
The older woman was aware of the nation's legacy of prejudice--the jobs denied by anti-Semitic bosses, the Jewish designation on passports, the thugs who spray-painted graffiti on synagogues and assaulted Jews on the streets. She advised her granddaughter not to take part in Hillel, an international foundation promoting Jewish life on campus.
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