The Tsal Kaplun Foundation (TKF) was established in 2016 and named in honor of Tsal Kaplun, the common ancestor of TKF co-founders Michael Levin, Joseph Menaker, and Leonid Vayn.
Our organization was founded to explore, preserve, and educate the world about the cultural heritage of Jewish communities in the former Soviet republics. We seek to celebrate the lives of our ancestors and commemorate the victims of pogroms, the Holocaust, and other grave historical crimes. Our goal is to report and contextualize the suffering of millions of Jewish families and preserve their history for the enlightenment of future generations. "We live – in the mundanity we live,
And memories we’re wrapping in the cape – The sound of lamenting to escape… We dream of the lament, it beckons – beckons in the dream…" From «Krasnostav Requiem» by Ilya Shifrin, English Translation by Irina Barskova |
TKF Mission:
Explore the modern Jewish history and document the key events on territories of Post-Soviet states
TKF Goals:
• Create a collective repository of personal stories, documents, and artifacts relating to Jewish history in Eastern Europe.
• Develop visual tools that place crucial events in Jewish history within a broader historical and geopolitical context.
• Document little-known details of Jewish history.
• Educate the public about the crimes perpetrated against the Jewish people.
• Develop visual tools that place crucial events in Jewish history within a broader historical and geopolitical context.
• Document little-known details of Jewish history.
• Educate the public about the crimes perpetrated against the Jewish people.
TKF has joined forces with a number of local groups of committed citizens to raise money for direct assistance to refugees and soldiers in the field.
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Tsal Kaplun Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN : 81-3184018