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The Emigre Program of Jewish Family and Children's Services has created a small but growing library of Russian and Bilingual materials, for the benefit of newcomers to our community, including the many refugees from the former Soviet Union.

If you would like to view these files with your Web browser, your browser will need to be able to display Cyrillic fonts.

If you are using Windows 95 or 98 and cannot view Russian text on your screen, take the following steps:

1. Verify that Multilingual Support has been installed by Windows on your computer. To do this, Use Start | Settings | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Windows Setup | Multilanguage Support | Detail. There should be a check-mark next to "Cyrillic language support". If not, put one there, click on OK repeatedly. Insert your Windows CD-ROM (or diskettes) as requested, and reboot when instructed.

2. Optionally, verify that the Russian language keyboard and layout have been installed. (This is only necessary if you wish to type in Russian as well as read it on screen.) To do this, Use Start | Settings | Control Panel | Keyboard | Language. Click on Add to install the Russian language and keyboard layout here. If you do, be sure to make a note of the hot-key you will use to switch keyboard layouts.
   
   NOTE 1: This will simply allow you to type in Russian as if you were using a Russian typewriter, provided that you have selected a suitable (Cyr) font. Windows does not know how to translate between languages.
   
   NOTE 2: Other keyboard mappings are possible. A phonetic equivalent mapping, for example, may be preferred if you are not already proficient using a standard Russian keyboard. See links below for alternatives and more information.
3. Next, start your browser (say, Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) and return to this page. The line near the top of the page, just under the blue line, should look like Russian (and should mean something like "Welcome to our Web Page").
   
   If instead, it just looks like a bunch of accented vowels, then we need to tell your browser to use Cyrillic for this page. In Internet Explorer, use the command View Fonts and select whichever of the available Cyrillic fonts makes the page look best. You may need to repeat this for any page that does not contain coding to tell your browser that the page contains Russian character sets.

For more information about using Russian fonts in Windows (all versions), or Unix, and especially about accessing Russian-language Internet materials using Netscape Communicator, you may wish to visit the very complete and helpful Web page at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paul_gorodyansky/home.htm.

Users of Macintosh computers may wish to visit the "Russification of Macintosh" Web site at http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/. (These sites are not affiliated with JFCS.)

I hope this is helpful. Good luck.