A story about the rabbi of the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, I. Kogan, a former Soviet engineer and designer of control systems for nuclear submarines. The synagogue building. The rabbi reads prayers during a service in the synagogue. Believing Jews celebrate a Jewish holiday. Jews dance during the holiday. Conducting religious ceremonies during a service in the synagogue. The holy book is the Torah. Rabbi I. Kogan talks about his life before and after perestroika in Russia. Newsreel: a submarine diving and surfacing; a submarine periscope underwater; sailors standing on a submarine during a military parade in Leningrad.




Submarines surface.
Rabbi of the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow I. Kogan (former Soviet engineer-designer of control systems of nuclear submarines) tells his life story (synchronously).
Synagogue building.
Rabbi reads prayers during the service in the synagogue.
Believing Jews celebrate the Jewish holiday.
Jews dance during the holiday.
Conducting religious ceremonies during the service in the synagogue.
The holy book is the Torah.
The footage alternates with the submarine diving and surfacing; the periscope of the submarine under water; sailors stand on the submarine during the military parade in Leningrad
Jews, rabbi
1999
Moscow
Summer




Jews cook, eat and dance celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Jewish dances and songs.
At the same time, the Rabbi of the Moscow synagogue tells his story of life in the USSR and after its collapse.
Jews
1999
Moscow
Summer