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Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present-day Ukraine, before 20 century borderland region in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (later in Russian Partition and Austrian Partition).
Eugenio Maria Zolli (27 September 1881 ‒ 2 March 1956), born Israel Anton Zoller, was an Austrian by birth, and an Italian doctorate professor of philosophy and author. . Until his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in February 1945, Zolli was the chief rabbi in Rome's Jewish community from 1940 to 194
It is estimated that about 10,000 Italian Jews were deported to concentration and death camps, of whom 7,700 perished in the Holocaust, out of a pre-war Jewish population that amounted to 58,500 (46,500 by Jewish religion and 12,000 converted or non-Jewish sons of mixed marriages).
Capital punishment was abolished in Ukraine in 2000. [1] In 1995 Ukraine entered the Council of Europe and thus was obliged to abolish the death penalty. [1] The Verkhovna Rada introduced amendments to the then-acting Criminal Code in 2000, according to which "death penalty" was withdrawn from the list of official punishments of Ukraine. [1]
CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged unwavering support for Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, in which they discussed ...
More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1881 and 1920, the vast majority emigrating to the United States and the Ottoman region that became Palestine, and the city became an important base of support for Zionism. [20] Members of the Jewish Labour Bund with bodies of their comrades killed in Odesa during the Russian Revolution of 1905
A woman pays homage at the memorial to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews in Babi Yar in Kyiv, Ukraine. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky“At Babi Yar no memorials preside.” Russian poet Yevgeny ...
On May 1, 2023, Lira was arrested at his home by Ukraine’s security service for charges related to Article 436-2 of Ukraine’s criminal code, which restricts the justification, glorification ...