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In the 19th century the Jewish community flourished and the Kyiv community became one of the biggest communities in Ukraine. In 1815, the Jewish population was 1,500, and would continue to grow, reaching over 81,000 nearly one hundred years later in 1913. In that period many synagogues were built
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In 1946, there was only one operating synagogue in Kyiv. The last rabbi to officiate in Kyiv was Rabbi Panets, who retired in 1960 and died in 1968; a new rabbi was not appointed. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the Jewish population emigrated from Kyiv. After
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After the war, the surviving Jews returned to the city. On September 4–7, 1945 a pogrom took place and around one hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds.
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the community was devastated, together with the rest of the city, but the community revived with the acquisition of the city by the
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The community suffered from a number of pogroms in 1882, and again in 1905, when hundreds of Jews were murdered and wounded. The
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chose to move his daughter's wedding to Israel, fearing that the guests would be victimized in the chaos during the
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occupation in 1654, Jews were not allowed to settle in the city. This ban was lifted only in 1793 after the
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Today there are approximately 40,000 Jews in Kyiv, with two major religious communities:
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the Jewish population grew rapidly and reached approximately 224,000 people in 1939.
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Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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most Jews escaped from the city. The remaining 33,771 Jews were concentrated in
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stretches from the 10th century CE to the 21st century, and forms part of the
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mentioned the city as one with a large Jewish community. During the
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in both the city center and in the Padol neighborhood, and
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Rededicated Kiev synagogue to serve as community center
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in 1648 most of the Jews in the city were murdered by
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Index

History of the Jews in Kiev
history of the Jews in Ukraine

Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Mykola Ivasyuk
Jews
Kyiv
Kievian Letter
Benjamin of Tudela
Pethahiah of Regensburg
Mongol occupation
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Khmelnytsky Uprising
Zaporozhian Cossacks
Russian
Third Partition of Poland

Kyiv's districts

Brodsky Choral Synagogue
puppet theatre
Brodsky Choral Synagogue
Beilis trial
Russian Revolution
Ukrainian War of Independence
new pogroms against the Jews
Ukrainian SSR
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
Babyn Yar
Holocaust

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