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  “I could have said I’m a Christian,” says Miriam Sangiorgio of Catania , Italy. “I could have had a very easy life.” Instead, the 42-year-old vivacious Italian chose to explore a tenuous Jewish connection that her father only revealed to her in his dying days. Today,...

Back in Israel, the Subbotniks' history is known, but here in this place, this knowledge is a very important matter as the Subbotniks' history is almost completely unknown. Welcome Galina Ivanov! Our friends in Jerusalem requested of me to ask you about your family's history, about your father and your grandfather. Where were they from before coming to Zima? How did they begin their lives here, in this place? Just what did they do? Back in Israel, the Subbotniks’ history is known, but here in this place, this knowledge is a very important matter as the Subbotniks’ history is almost completely unknown.
Rabbi David Winitz Interviews Tatiana Resnikov We are interviewing Tatiana Resnikov. She and her family live in the city of Sajansk, near Zima. I ask her, “Tell me your history and your family’s, here in this place. And if you know, where did they come from?” Tatiana says, “My grandmother told me that in 1860, they sent her from the village in the middle of Russia, near Veroniz. The names of the Subbotnik families were:  Proligma, Maslava and Shashalnikov. Some of them lived in a part of Zima, called Old Zima and some lived in the area near here, in a village called Plavina. The grandfather’s family name was Maslov. He lived in “Zajinka” under the name Maslavoi. That is to say, only Subbotniks lived there and all of them had the family name of Maslov. The grandfather’s father was called Abraham Maslov.”  
Rabbi David Winitz Interviews Pavel Kzanichev (Zanin) “Welcome everybody!” “We are speaking with Pavel Kzanichev (Zanin) who is also a Subbotnik and lives in Zima.  

When I was 10 years old, I remember Father taking me to a church meeting. A Mr. Villa Nueva was there. He was someone who always sought out the truth but never felt satisfied. We were always Sabbath observers. At that time, we also began...

I thank God that at a young age, from 1970 until 1983 I already began to know Judaism. We were very careful about keeping kosher just as it is written in the Torah. Mr. Santos Aguera stayed in Trujillo from 1988 until 1990 and taught...

I had connections with Judaism since I began studying the Bible with friends in 1978. I never was a religious person in the accepted sense. I studied Bible from a “historical” point of view alone. That was my connection with Judaism. Time passed and I...

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