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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 ...
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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 ...
Antisemitism in Ukraine has been a historical issue in the country, particularly in the twentieth century. The history of the Jewish community of the region dates back to the era when ancient Greek colonies existed in it. A third of the Jews of Europe previously lived in Ukraine between 1791 and 1917, within the Pale of Settlement.
Kalnik (river), a river in Bulgaria, tributary of Vit; Kalnik, North Macedonia, a village in Bogovinje Municipality, Macedonia; Kalnik, an alternative name for Kuzmyno, a village in Ukraine; Kalnik, an evil alien character in Mork & Mindy who claims to be from Neptune
Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland).
[10]: 100 Even after the Russian government had dissolved all Jewish Kehillah in 1844, the Odesa Kehillah continued to function as a semi-autonomous body in the region, whose meetings were held at regular intervals. [4]: 43 Between 1837 and 1844, the number of Jewish merchants who were members of the kuptsy category increased from 169 to 221 ...
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) David Tyshler (1927–2014), Ukraine-born Soviet sabre fencer, Olympic bronze medalist