2025 Jewish Book Day in St. Petersburg

The annual Jewish Book Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, held at the city’s Great Choral Synagogue on April 27, 2025, included a presentation of the recently published bilingual Russian-Yiddish book Moisey Beregovsky: Essays on the History of Yiddish Folk Music.

The book fair also included two lectures related to Hasidic Yiddish and its speakers. The poet and writer Yoel Matveyev spoke about the sacred status of the language among Hasidim; the renowned researcher Dr. Valery Dymshits presented a recent Russian academic book on Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz, the Rybnitser Rebbe, largely based on Yiddish materials gathered in American Hasidic communities.