The Jewish community is among the oldest communities living on the territory of Ukraine. Modern Ukrainian Jews are mostly descendants of one of the largest Jewish sub-ethnos, Ashkenazi. Nowadays, approximately 300,000 people with Jewish roots live in Ukraine. Holocaust and mass shootings during the World War II in Babyn Yar in Kyiv and all over Ukraine took lives of more than half of the Ukrainian Jews. The descendants of the survivors were forcibly assimilated by the Soviets. The full recovery of the Jewish community and gradual restoration of synagogues, which once numbered 800, has begun with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Each year, there are traditional holidays in September and October, related to the Jewish New Year.
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12 ноя 2019
