Hillel Zaltzman

Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman is president of Chamah. He was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1939. He was three years old when his parents fled from the invading Nazis and settled in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. At sixteen, he joined Chamah, an underground organization created to keep Judaism alive despite the Soviet government’s efforts to suppress it. In 1971, he received his exit visa and emigrated to Israel where he helped reestablish Chamah to help Russian Jews reclaim their Jewish heritage.

ARTICLES BY: Hillel Zaltzman

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The Jews of Samarkand: Remembering the Death of Stalin

“The Jewish Underground of Samarkand: How Faith Defied Soviet Rule” by Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman (Mandel Vilar Press, 2023) “The Jewish Underground of Samarkand: How Faith Defied...