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The tribulations of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement were immortalized in the writings of Yiddish authors such as humorist Sholem Aleichem, whose novel Tevye der Milkhiger (Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye the Milkman, in the form of the narration of Tevye from a fictional shtetl of Anatevka to the author) forms the basis ...
The Gwoździec Synagogue was a Jewish synagogue located in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in what is now Hvizdets in Ukraine.Built in the mid-17th century, the synagogue endured severe damage during the First World War, and was destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. [2]
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee was established in 2008 in Kyiv to concentrate the efforts of Jewish leaders in Ukraine on resolving the community's strategic problems and addressing socially significant issues. The Committee declared its intention to become one of the world's most influential organizations protecting the rights of Jews and "the ...
Town Yiddish Name [1] [2] Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Hebrew Latin Antopal: אנטיפאָליע Antipolye 1,792 (1921) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated.
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion; Katerina Pisetsky, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnast [13] Maxim Podoprigora, Ukrainian-born Austrian swimmer; Ian Rubin, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national rugby league team [14] Igor Rybak, Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic weightlifting champion (lightweight)
The Kremlin has struggled to explain why it was necessary to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, a country whose president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. The latest effort to do so, a comparison of Zelensky ...
The pro-Russian Ukrainians and the Ukraine-government supporters blamed each other for the exacting situation of the Jews of Kyiv, but the leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community judged that recent anti-Semitic provocations in the Crimea, including graffiti on a synagogue in Crimea's capital that read “Death to the Zhids,” were the handiwork ...
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