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Kyiv / Київ / קיעוו Jewish City Guide v1.0

The first City Guide at Jewish Ukraine Travel is for our homebase: Kyiv. The national capital and center of it all. The guide will help...

A Walk Through Chernivtsi Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish Cemetery in Chernivtsi is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Ukraine, behind Lviv, and one of the largest in...

Ukrainian Election 1917 Jewish Voter’s Guide

Pictured: Kyiv City Teacher's House. The building was the meeting location of the Central Rada from March 17, 1917 to April 29, 1918....

The Golem: Jewish Horror on Screen

A plague is sweeping through Lithuania in the year 1670. More die by the day, and now the daughter of a village headman, Vladimir, is...

Short Guide to Babi Yar

German forces entered Kyiv on September 19th, 1941 after a crushing victory over the Red Army. Starting the next day, the Soviet NKVD,...

Remembering the Holocaust Through Yom Ha'Shoah

The holidays we choose to observe, the days on which we observe them, and the manner in which we do so, are the most public and engaging...

Saying Goodbye to Amos Oz, A Writer of Pre-Holocaust Ukraine

At the close of 2018, we lost one of the titans of modern Jewish literature. Amos Oz passed away at the age of 79 after a short fight...