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Odesa was a major center of Eastern European Jewish cultural life. From Odesa sailed the SS Ruslan which is considered the mayflower of Israeli culture . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They comprised the largest ethno-religious group in the region throughout most of the 19th century and until the mid-20th century when the Jews were massacred by Romanian forces ...
Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Hebrew Latin Antopal: אנטיפאָליע Antipolye 1,792 (1921) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Byerazino: בערעזין Berezin Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Brahin: בראָהין Brohin 2,254 (1897) Town survived. Chawusy: טשאָוס Tshous 7,444 (1897) Town survived ...
Another early Jewish settler was Cap. Samuel Noah, the first Jewish graduate of West Point, who taught school at Mount Pulaski, Illinois in the late 1840s. As of 2013, Illinois has a Jewish population of 297,935. [1] Approximately three-fourths of them live in Chicago. Peoria and Quincy have the second- and third-largest Jewish communities.
The New Odessa colony centered socialist ideology, sharing ownership of the land, and attempted to enact gender equality. Unlike some other Am Olam colonies that were based in Orthodox Jewish philosophy, New Odessa was a secular colony, based on democratic living and equality of the sexes. Their motto was "one for all and all for one." [19]
[3] [4] At its founding, it was the first Jewish museum in a post-Soviet nation. The building is listed as #51-101-0776 on the State Register of Immovable Landmarks of Ukraine . [ 5 ] It is a nonprofit and relies on visitor donations.
A map of Jewish congregations in the Thirteen British North American colonies. Religious tolerance was also established elsewhere in the colonies. The charter of the colony of South Carolina granted liberty of conscience to all settlers, expressly mentioning "Jews, heathens, and dissenters."
In the nineteenth-century, Jews began settling throughout the American West. The majority were immigrants, with German Jews comprising most of the early nineteenth-century wave of Jewish immigration to the United States and therefore to the Western states and territories, while Eastern European Jews migrated in greater numbers and comprised most of the migratory westward wave at the close of ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Jewish American people in Illinois politics (1 C, 12 P) R. Rabbis from Illinois (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Jews from Illinois"