Jewish Community of Armenia
The Jewish Community of Armenia is the country’s oldest and largest Jewish NGO. It serves as a community center for Jewish holidays and culture and runs Magen David, Armenia’s only Jewish newspaper.
Founded in 1991 by activists including Gershon Burstein and William Weiner, it has been led since 1996 by Rima Varzhapetyan-Feller. The organization is affiliated with the World Jewish Congress and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and represents Armenian Jews in the Council for National Minorities.
In the 2000s, it placed a monument in Yerevan honoring the victims of the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. It also restored Armenia’s medieval Jewish cemetery in Yeghegis, which is now a tourist site.
Magen David is published monthly in Russian, Armenian, and Hebrew. Free print copies are available at the Yerevan office, and online versions are on the group’s website.
Members have coauthored multilingual books on Armenian Jewry, including Jews in Armenia: The Middle Ages (2009) and The Jews of Noah’s Land (2020).
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