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Today studying the past of Jews in Russian Empire and Soviet
Union is keen interest of many people. Many articles, essays and books
dedicated to different aspects of this theme have been published and have
been publishing recently. Nevertheless, there are a lot of things that
should be done because not all of them are studied. Particularly, the
history of Jews in huge territory of modern Kazakhstan has not been studied
properly till present day.
The presented collected articles is the first and the only try to cover
in a general way the life of Jewish population of Kazakhstan that time -
the remote area of tsarist Russia. The collected articles consists of
two parts: articles and documents.
The articles of the candidate of historical science Tatyana
Volkova "The peculiar properties of establishment of Jewish Diaspora
in Kazakhstan" and Isaac Greenberg "At the border line of expulsion"
tell about general questions of the history of Jews of the region; the
region was different from other administrative areas of pre-revolutionary
Russia. The difference was in ethnicity and classes diversity of comparatively
small number of people of Kazakhstan and special military and bureaucratic
executive system. The essay by Almaty regional specialist Vladimir Proskurin
"Jews in Semirechye" is very original essay about real inhabitants
of Vernyi City who were the members of the Vernyi Jewish Community.
The second part, prepared by Tatyana Zhylkina includes 41
documents from the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
They have been published for the first time. The article by Tatyana Volkova
and Tatyana Zhylkina anticipates the second part of the book. It tells
to readers about presented documents, their subjects and the division
into rubrics.
The materials introduce different aspects of local Jews:
their professions, their relations with local authorities, who were watching
very carefully the observance so-called law about Jews.
The publication of these collected articles came about due
to help and assistance of Alexander Baron, the president of "Mitsva"
Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The authors really hope that the book will start the subsequent
study of the History of Jews in Kazakhstan.
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