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The history of the Jews in Odesa dates to 16th century. Since the modern city's founding in 1795, Odesa has been home to one of the largest population of Jews in what is today Ukraine . Odesa was a major center of Eastern European Jewish cultural life.
The Museum of the History of Odesa Jews or the "Migdal-Shorashim" is a historical museum in Odesa, Ukraine. It reflects the history of the Jews from their first settlement in Odesa to their impacts in the city in the modern age. [1] It is located on 66 Nezhinskaya Street. [2]
The 1905 pogrom of Odessa was the worst anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa's history. Between 18 and 22 October 1905, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, and Greeks killed over 400 Jews and damaged or destroyed over 1600 Jewish properties. [11]
In 1925, the Brody Synagogue was turned into the Rosa Luxemburg Workers Club, which was a meeting place to push socialist propaganda. [7] The Ten Commandments over the synagogue's ark were covered with a photo of Lenin. [19] [20] In 1939, the Jewish population of Odesa had numbered 80,000 to 90,000, but by 1945 only 5,000 remained. [7]
Maurice Friedberg, "How Things Were Done in Odesa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City" (1991) ISBN 0-8133-7987-3 (The book is about the life and culture of Odesa of the Soviet era. Its title is an allusion to a Babel's short story "How Things Were Done in Odesa" from The Odesa Tales )
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I'd propose the hook to the lines of "at one time, Jews constituted almost 90% of Odessa's population" (as it appears in the text) or that "despite the massacre in 1940 and WWII in general, Jews still constituted more than 10% of Odessa's post-war population", or something about Jewish culture, architecture, trade influence, whatever.
Jews from the city of Odesa, Ukraine, known for its large and historically significant Jewish population. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.