Nikolaev

Ukraine > From Kiev to the Black Sea

Located at the junction of the Ingul and the Boug rivers, Nikolaev has a lesser known Jewish history than its 200 kilometers neighbour Odessa. However, it is a city with an important Jewish past: the famous loubavitch rabbi Menachen Mendel Schneerson was born there and Isaac Babel spent in Nikolaev some of his childhood years. To get there, the simplest and cheapest is to take the marshroutka ...

Evreiskaya st. synagogue of Belgorod-Dniestrovski

Evreiskaya 29, Bilhorod-Dnistrovs’kyi, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, 67701

Ismailskaya st. synagogue of Belgorod-Dniestrovski

29 Ismailskaya, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyï, Odessa, Ukraine, 67700

Belgorod-Dniestrosvki

Ukraine > From Kiev to the Black Sea

Belgorod-Dniestrosvki, which means literaly “white city on the Dniestr, is a quiet city, located about a hundred kilometers south to Odessa. It was founded in the sixth century BC by Grec settlers from the city of Milet, Belgorod is actually one of the oldest city in the world. Its strategic location on the Dniestr delta made it a stronghold for the empires and kingdoms which controlled ...

Palestine Committee

12 Nechypurenka Lane, Odessa, Ukraine

Jewish soup kitchen

35 Bazarnaya, Odessa

Charitable organization for Jewish students

44 Pastera, Odessa

Charitable organization for Odessa poors

14 Utesov, Odessa

Modalvanka Jews charitable organization

25 Grecheskaya, Odessa

Jewish merchants organization

43 Troitskaya, Odessa

Furnitures’ makers Synagogue

13 Myasoyedovskaya, Odessa

Butchers’ Synagogue

46 A Malaya Arnautskaya, Odessa

Yavne Synagogue

31 Bolshaya Arnautskaya, Odessa

Bakers’ Synagogues

29 Uspenskaya, Odessa

Jewish Cemetery of Odessa

Khimitcheskaïa St, Odessa

Jewish Cultural Center of Odessa

77 Nizhyns’ka St, 79, Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine http://www.beit-grand.odessa.ua/

Hasidic Synagogue of Odessa

21 Osipova Street, Odessa +38 0482 218 890

Glavnaya Synagogue of Odessa

25 Evreyskaya Street, Odessa +38 0482 243 694

Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky

Ukraine > From Kiev to the Black Sea

The city of Pereyaslav, to which the name Khmelnitsky was added in honor of that Cossack leader, was also the birthplace of Sholem Aleichem. To lovers of musical comedy, the city is better known as Anatevka, the name it bears in Fiddlers on the Roof. Aleichem found inspiration for his novels’ many characters here: the one who seeks their fortune, the boy who joins the revolution and is ...

From Kiev to the Black Sea

Ukraine

Ukraine, the largest of the former Soviet Republics, is, along with Belarus and Lithuania, heir to the former "Pale of Settlement", the buffer zone designed t contain the Jews within the westernmost margins of the Russian Empire. Despite considerable losses due to the Shoah and resulting emigration, Ukraine still contains a large Jewish community (around 500000 members, or 1% of the ...

Yiddishland

The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in Lithuania between the eighteenth century and the Shoah- had disappeared beyond ruins and cemeteries. The complete eradication of a Jewish presence, the sworn objective of the Nazis, was conducted with ...