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Jewish Museum opens in Moscow

Visitors walk the halls of the Jewish Museum, which opened Sunday in Moscow.

Visitors walk the halls of the Jewish Museum, which opened Sunday in Moscow.  (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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Unique not only in its high-tech content but also in its political importance, a museum of Jewish history and culture opened to the public Sunday in Moscow, the capital of a nation plagued by anti-Semitism for more than two centuries. As several hundred visitors filled the 90,000-plus square foot former bus garage, they were immersed in a deeply moving lesson in tolerance.

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A young woman sits across the table from a statue of Jewish author Sholem Aleichem in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow as she learned facts about his life and references to his works by interacting with images on the table.   (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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Visitors watch a 4-D film about the early history of Jews on Sunday in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow.  (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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Visitors watch a 4-D film about the early history of Jews in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow.  (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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Visitors watch a documentary and listen to facts about the life of Leon Trotsky, a Bolshevik leader, at the Jewish Museum, which opened Sunday in Moscow.   (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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Visitors watch a Holocaust documentary in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow.  (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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A visitor marks a passage from an electronic version of the Torah in the Jewish Museum, which opened Sunday in Moscow.   (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times)

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