History of the Jews in Kyiv

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The history of the Jews in Kyiv stretches from the 10th century CE to the 21st century, and forms part of the history of the Jews in Ukraine.

Middle Ages and Renaissance

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Entering Kyiv by Mykola Ivasyuk.

The first mention of

Mongol occupation the community was devastated, together with the rest of the city, but the community revived with the acquisition of the city by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. During Polish–Lithuanian rule, Jews were allowed to settle in the city, but they were subject to several deportations in 1495 and again in 1619.[1]

During the Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648 most of the Jews in the city were murdered by Zaporozhian Cossacks, along with most of the Jews in Ukraine. After the Russian occupation in 1654, Jews were not allowed to settle in the city. This ban was lifted only in 1793 after the Third Partition of Poland.

Modern history

Percentage of ethnic Jews in Kyiv's districts according to the 1919 municipal population census
puppet theatre and currently used as a synagogue[2][3]

In the 19th century the Jewish community flourished and the Kyiv community became one of the biggest communities in Ukraine. In 1815, the Jewish population was 1,500, and would continue to grow, reaching over 81,000 nearly one hundred years later in 1913.

Brodsky Choral Synagogue
. Jewish schools and workshops were built all around the city.

The community suffered from a number of pogroms in 1882, and again in 1905, when hundreds of Jews were murdered and wounded. The

Beilis trial
, in which a local Jew, Beilis, was accused of the ritual murder of a child, took place in the city in 1913. Beilis was found innocent.

During the

Ukrainian SSR the Jewish population grew rapidly and reached approximately 224,000 people in 1939.[1]

At the beginning of the

Holocaust
. Another 15,000 Jews were murdered in the same place during 1941–1942.

After the war, the surviving Jews returned to the city. On September 4–7, 1945 a pogrom took place and[5] around one hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.[6]

In 1946, there was only one operating synagogue in Kyiv. The last rabbi to officiate in Kyiv was Rabbi Panets, who retired in 1960 and died in 1968; a new rabbi was not appointed.

Babyn Yar, where an official ceremony is held every year.[7]

Today there are approximately 40,000 Jews in Kyiv, with two major religious communities:

Brodsky Choral Synagogue and the Great Choral Synagogue, serve these communities.[8]

Antisemitism

Kyiv Rabbi

Rosh Hashana and a couple of months later. [11][12] During June 2015, there was an explosion in a Jewish-owned shop in Kyiv.[why?] An extreme right-wing organization claimed responsibility for the incident.[13][failed verification] Later that month, the memorial Menorah in Babyn Yar was desecrated again.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kiev". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. ^ Rededicated Kiev synagogue to serve as community center
  3. ISBN 9780549771005
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  4. ^ "The Jewish Community of Kiev". The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot.
  5. ^ "State-sponsored Anti-Semitism in Postwar USSR. Studies and Research Perspectives; Antonella Salomoni". Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History / Questioni di storia ebraica contemporanea. 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  6. ^ Amir Weiner. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton University Press. 2008. p. 192.
  7. ^ "Peres will attend memorial ceremony at Ukraine' Babyn Yar - Jewish World - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  8. ^ Jewish People Around the World Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Rebbetzin on the Front Lines: Kiev's Elka Markovitch". 20 March 2014.
  10. ^ Tracy, Marc. "What the Crisis in Ukraine Means for Its 70,000 Jews". New Republic. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  11. ^ "Swastika painted on memorial menorah in Babyn Yar". CFCA. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  12. ^ "Swastikas painted on Babi Yar memorial". CFCA. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  13. ^ "Unknown offenders detonated store". CFCA. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  14. ^ "swastikas on holocaust memorial". CFCA. Retrieved 25 June 2015.

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