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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
The Federation has wide internal and external relations, works in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education of Israel, the Embassy of the State of Israel in Ukraine , the Jewish Agency Sokhnut, the Or Avner Charitable Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine , as well as with ...