A book exhibition, devoted to the Independence Day of Kazakhstan was held in Taldikorgan in a library named after Mayakovskiy. That was not the first experience of city administration's work with mobile libraries of national cultural centers of the region.

   The participants came from various parts of the region. The Jewish community was represented by "Aviv" Welfare Cultural center. Workers and volunteers of the center draw the attention of citizens to books on the Jewish Tradition, religion, culture and history.

   A special place in the exposition was given to a two-volume edition of Aleksandr Mashkevitch "Jews and Kazakhstan". Aleksandr Matushkin, a religious and community program coordinator briefly described contents of the books.

  A wonderful addition to the exhibition was a performance of children's groups. Young generation of Taldikorgan Jewish community sang a number of songs in Hebrew and staged a play "Saturday meeting".

Tamara Perevalova