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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 Ephrussi family (French pronunciation:) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family. The family's bank and properties were seized by the Nazi authorities after the 1938 " Anschluss ", the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany .
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.
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]
Jewish history of the Russian Federation (through the Second World War) Modern History Sourcebook: The Jewish Chronicle: Outrages Upon Jews in Russia, May 6, 1881; Jewish Virtual Library page "Pogroms" History of pogroms in Odessa; The Pogrom of 1905 in Odessa: A Case Study Archived 2016-04-04 at the Wayback Machine; Kishinev pogrom history
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.
Shafirov came, as most Russian Jews after the fall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, from a Jewish family of Polish origin. He had extraordinary knowledge of foreign languages and served as the chief translator in the Russian Foreign Office, subsequently he began to accompany Tsar Peter on his international travels.
The Brodsky Synagogue is a Reform [2] [a] Jewish synagogue, located at Zhukovskoho Street 18, in Odesa, Ukraine.. Completed in 1868 by Jews from Brody, it was the first Reform synagogue and the first with an organ in the then Russian Empire, and the largest synagogue in what is now south Ukraine.