Nosson Vershubsky at 'Fiddler on the Roof - 2018'. State Kremlin Palace. [with English SUBTITLES]

At "Fiddler on the Roof - 2018" Award Ceremony in the State Kremlin Palace Yury Stoyanov reads the first chapter called "Ko Ribboin" from Nosson Vershubsky's book "Caution: the doors are opening!"

Sings: Nosson Vershubsky.
Musical accompaniment - "Klezmerata Fiorentina".

Nomination "Courage." For selfless struggle for the Rights of the Jews in the USSR.
Noson Vershubsky - teacher, writer, publicist. Since the beginning of the 80s - an activist of the independent Jewish religious movement. Since the 2000s - Rabbi of Voronezh, Kaunas, Klaipeda.

The last Jewish believer convicted in the USSR for religious activism. For two years he was imprisoned on a false charge of embezzling books from a Kiev synagogue. He described the life of the Jewish underground and his imprisonment on the pages of “Lechaim” magazine and in the book of memoirs “Caution, the doors are opening!”

“A Jew must be a Jew, wherever he is. Even in prison. ” (Nosson Vershubsky)