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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 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. [6] It has a collection of over 13,000 items contained in 7 exhibitions. The location of the building is in close proximity to a formerly Jewish neighborhood of Odesa prior to the Holocaust.
The synagogue operated until 1920, [b] when it was closed by Soviet authorities and subsequently converted into Soviet government administration use as the Odessa State Archives. In 2016, the synagogue was handed back to the Jewish community to restore the building as an Orthodox synagogue and Jewish history museum.
Odessa is the largest city in Lafayette County, Missouri, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the Midwestern United States. The population was 5,593 [ 4 ] at the 2020 census . Located along Interstate 70 Odessa's historic downtown is home to a range of boutique shops and restaurants.
1819 – Odessa becomes a free port. [9] 1821 Church of the Dormition built. [citation needed] Pogrom against Jews. 1824 – Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia". [4] 1825 – Archeological Museum founded. [citation needed] 1826 Fyodor Palen in power. Jewish school established. [8] Richelieu Monument unveiled.
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]
The first general assembly of the Odessa Committee, 1890. The pogroms of 1881-1884 and the May Laws of 1882 gave impetus to political activism among Russian Jews and mass emigration. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1881 and 1920, the vast majority emigrating to the United States. The Tsarist government sporadically encouraged ...
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