Digest, October 1982

Contents: Us and the Outside World. The Nazi Karl Linnas — The Status of Jews in Tsarist Russia — Contact. Jewish Communities of Transcaucasia and the Ethnonym *Hrea/Huria* (Jew) — Moscow Toponymy — Tyutchev and Wolfson — Distinctive Features. Jewish Cuisine — From Previously Published Material. Sergei Alexandrovich Bershadsky — Historical Details. Jewish Physicians of Medieval Italy — Great Powers and the Middle East — Statistics and Facts. The Jewish Press in the USSR in 1981 — Information on the Bund — International Fulkerson Prize Awarded to a Soviet Mathematician — Expedition Leaves Ararat — National Culture. State Jewish Museum in Prague — Stories by M. Barzilai — Testimonies of Memory — The Fate of Gabriel Mulokandov