Month: February 2021

HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS FROM BERDICHEV Alexander Tzederbaum (known as Erez), a Polish journalist, editor of the Hebrew newspaper “Hamelitz” visited Berdichev in order to make a […]

The sad contempt of this page doesn’t need any additional commentary, we have chosen only those Jewish people born or having lived for some period […]

(Arriving at Berdichev in July, 1941) After the group of armies “South” has grasped East Galitsiya and Western Ukraine in the beginning of July, it […]

Courtesy of Natasha Bulashova from Pushchino, Russia, and Greg Cole of Knoxville, from Tennessee, USA. Behind the Front With the annexation of the Baltic states […]

Courtesy of Natasha Bulashova from Pushchino, Russia, and Greg Cole of Knoxville, from Tennessee, USA. Revolution and Emancipation The fall of the czarist in March […]

In 1807 Samuel C. Isachar Ber, who had printing presses in several towns, set up a press in Berdichev, initially as a branch  of his […]

THE ROAD TO MOGILEVSome little known pages of Russian Jewry’s history in the reign of Nicholas I By Valery Kadzhaya (Courtesy www.newtimes.ru ) So much […]

 Berdichev town is situated in the historic region of Volhynia, often called “The Jerusalem of Volhynia”, now in Zhitomir oblast, Ukraine.From the 16th century till […]

Bar Confederation Forms- 1768-1772After Russia became so involved in Poland-Lithuania, an anti-Russian confederation formed, and in February 1768 the anti-royalists and anti-Russians joined into one […]

Courtesy of Natasha Bulashova from Pushchino, Russia, and Greg Cole of Knoxville, from Tennessee, USA. A “Jewish Problem” In the Principality of Moscow and the […]