The Russian Jews Who Helped Create North Korea

By Bill Streifer

Chabad rabbi Meir Alfasi in North Korea, in what was dubbed the first Chabadnik in the Communist state.. Courtesy of Meir Alfasi

November 2020 Anno Domini

This is the story of a family of Russian Jews, two members of which played a role in the formation of what would later become the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea.

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