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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]
Pogrom against Jews. [8] Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded. 1873 – Population: 162,814. [13] 1874 – Theatre Velikanova built. 1875 – Tzar visits Odessa. [6] 1876 – Turkish forces attack Odessa. [4] 1880 – Horse tramway begins operating. [citation needed] 1881 Steam tramway begins operating. [citation needed] Pogrom ...
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century). [10] [11] Important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, arose there.
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.
Am Olam was a movement among Russian Jews to establish agricultural colonies in America. The name means "Eternal People" and is taken from the title of an essay by Peretz Smolenskin. [1] [2] It was founded in Odessa in 1881 by Mania Bakl (Maria Bahal) and Moses Herder, who called for the creation of Socialist agricultural communities in the ...
Map of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Odessa ghetto marked with gold-red star. Transnistria massacres marked with red skulls. The Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the Transnistria Governorate during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 while it was under Romanian control.
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