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Bronx Borough President realizes the Annual Bronx Chanukah Celebration This year Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion’s Annual Bronx Chanukah Celebration commemorated the 40th anniversary of the movement to free Soviet Jews, celebrating four decades of the liberation of Russian Jews with a series of concerts, film screenings and an art exhibition Following Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War against Arabic states in 1967, many Soviet Jews began their struggle to immigrate to the U.S. and Israel. The Soviet system had denied Jews that right to emigrate. Through their efforts and leaders around the world, Soviet Jews were slowly allowed to emigrate and there are now thousands of Russian-speaking Jews in the Bronx. The event, celebrated in the Court Building, featured a performance by Yakov Yavno, a popular Russian- Jewish singer and perhaps, the most famous to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Yakov was awarded the coveted title of “Artist of Special Merit” by the Russian government for his role as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” He has performed on stage at The Bolshoi Theatre, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center of New York City, National Opera House of Tel Aviv as well as many other world-class venues. Also,the celebration featured the first public display of a photo exhibition entitled, Bronx Diary: Russian-Jewish Life in Bronx Neighborhoods,which includes 25 photos by photographers, Michael Callender, and Rabbi Moshe Fuchs. The exhibit showed a visual chronicle of Russian-Jewish life in the Bronx. These photographs represent the reality of a historically displaced community, focusing on their new live in New York City, their traditions, their brotherly life, their faces and their expressions. In addition, the event also served to show the award-winning movie, “Tsipa and Volf,” by filmmaker, Dan Gamburg, about two elderly Jewish émigrés from Latvia who reminisce about their life together. This festivity was organized in a partnership between the Bronx Borough President’s office and the Bronx Tourism Council and sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and the Bronx Jewish Community Council. ###
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