Tag: Jewish Renaissance

Julia Kislev, a Crimean Jew living in Armenia, opened Mama Jan cafe in Yerevan, which became a hub for Russian Jews who settled in Armenia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Since the fall of Communism in Ukraine, there has been a revival of Jewish life and observance in the country.
In the 1570s, Italian Jewish Renaissance figure Azariah de Rossi translated and published The Letter of Aristeas, a second-century BCE work recounting the translation of the Torah into Greek by 72 Jewish sages for King Ptolemy II Philadelphus.