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The Hesed Faina stock started to form in June 2000 basically from
the books sent from the Republican Jewish Library (Hesed Polina, Almaty). They
received books edited in Jerusalem and sent by Joint for Hesed libraries. However,
the readers who presented their own books extended the stock. At first there
was not many readers, mainly the clients of Hesed but then the number of the
readers increased. All cultural life was concentrated around the library. The
clients were really interested in Jewish history and started to prepare lectures
using different literature.
 The
new program "The Jewish history and traditions" started working at
the beginning of August. Naum Isaakovich Stuchevskiy, the Chairman of the Board,
read lectures about the history of Israel. In September a volunteer Yelena Rozenbaum
continued this work.
On 3 September 2000 the annual Festival of Jewish book was held
in the Republican library named after Pushkin with a great success.
Today 100 people use the library of Hesed Faina. It has different
kinds of books. The most interesting themes for all the times are "Jewish
sources". And as a consequence the Torah studying group was organized and
the head of this group is volunteer Fanya Suponitskaya. 15-20 people are studying
there and not only Hesed's clients but the other members of the Jewish community
of Ust-Kamenogorsk.
Every month Book Club presents new books to the lovers of Jewish
prose and poetry. The head of the Club is Aida Levina who is keen of Jewish
History and Tradition. Aida Alxandrovna studied thoroughly all the new books
about Jewish History and Culture in the library. Many times she read very interesting
lectures to the members of the Community.
21 November 2001 Book Club organized lecture dedicated to poet
Mikhail Svetlov. It was not just an ordinary lecture; at first people sang songs
"Kakhovka", "Grenada" and "The Young Drummer"
and listened to poet's life story with a great interest. Aida Levina told about
his hard life.
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