Digest, January 1983

Contents: War and Catastrophe. "Buchenwald notebooks" No. 14 -- Fates of concentration camp prisoners -- Reburial of Nazi victims -- GDR historians on the persecution of Jews -- Distinctive features. What did "Ivri" mean three millennia ago? -- National culture. Kaunas Jewish ensemble in Palanga -- An outstanding work on Jewish musical folklore -- A series based on the Pentateuch -- Something new for the schoolbag -- A collector of Krymchak folklore -- Anniversaries and dates. Isaak Kaya -- E. Vakhtangov -- Noekh Prilutski -- Contact. Racism, English-style -- Antisemitism in the USA -- Abraham's Carpet -- "Esther, or the Play of Artaxerxes" -- "Shoshana Azivit" / K. Balmont -- A settlement named Shvarts -- Statistics and facts. Jews at the Zaporozhye Pedagogical Institute -- Einstein in Switzerland -- A letter from Nizhny Tagil -- From previously published material. Dietary rules -- Historical details. Rabbi Loew ben Bezalel