In November 2019 I returned to Ukraine, this time concentrating on the Kiev region, formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Pale of Settlement, a region that stretched from Belarus to the Black Sea. These regions had for centuries been a haven for Judaism and the centre for European Jewish settlement. Ukraine’s cities, towns and villages once held sizeable Jewish populations active in trade, commerce and politics; these communities are significantly smaller and, outside of the major city centres, are dwindling as they age and the youth move away.
Elderly Man, Zvenyhorodka
Yacob Tamarkin, Head of the Jewish Community, Vasyl’Kiv
Barooka (Bellinda), Bershad
Elena Alekseevna Miroshnichenko, Zvenyhorodka
Klavdiya Kolesnikova, Jewish Museum, Korsun
Pyotr wearing Tefillin, Korsun
Leonid Brasavskiy, Head of the Jewish Community, Zvenyhorodka
Roman Tivin, Head of the Jewish Community, Bohslav
Roman’s Grandfather, Korsun Jewish Museum
Oleh, Uman
Dmitri (Shoemaker), Uman
Ina, Great Choral Synagogue, Podil, Kyiv
Brodsky Synagogue, Kyiv
Stein, Brodsky Synagogue, Kyiv
Puppets from Yiddish Theatre Exhibition (part of the Judaica Institute collection), Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Of Ukraine, Kyiv
Brodsky Synagogue, Kyiv
Leonid Finberg, Director of The Center for the Studies of History & Culture of East European Jewry, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Tania Borodina, Researcher in Holocaust history, Judaica Institute, Kyiv
Oksana, ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Kyiv branch (with drone aerial view of Jewish cemetery)
Kateryna Malakhova, Historical Researcher, ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Kyiv branch
Jewish School, Bila Tserkva
Jewish School, Bila Tserkva
Holodomor Monument, Kyiv
Sweeper, Babyn Yar (massacre site), Kyiv
Goats, Zvenyhorodka Jewish Cemetery
Yakob, Jewish Cemetery, Vasyl’Kiv
Former Jewish home, Bershad
Locals, former Jewish shtetl, Bershad
Bohslav, former Shtetl
Jewish Cemetery, Zvenyhorodka
Efim Mihailovich Vigodner, Head of the Jewish Community, Bershad
Synagogue, Bershad
