Russian Jewish Museum Opens in Moscow

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Sergei L. Loiko

Visitors watch a 4-D film about the early history of
Jews on Sunday in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow.

RUSSIA---Unique not only in its high-tech content but also in its political importance, a museum of Jewish history and culture opened to the public Sunday in Moscow, the capital of a nation beset by anti-Semitism for more than two centuries. Several hundred visitors filed into the more than 90,000-square-foot former bus garage and found themselves immersed in a lesson in tolerance. The $50-milllion museum, which took four years to construct, would have been unthinkable even three decades ago, before the period of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. [link]