Digest, November 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