Month: June 2021

A Small Ukranian Town of Rich Cultural History Materials for the article have been supplied by Victor Kyrkevych, photos by Yuriy Buslenko General view of […]

(Courtesy: David Weinberg) At night, the u-boats came, carried him back to Berdichev where he swam beneath the pier and hooked the ladies bathing gowns […]

BERDICHEV (Author: Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis) Much of Europe was flooded as our Hineni group made its way to visit the kevarim– the grave sites of our […]

The Gaon Rabbi Yaakov, known throughout Europe as the Dubno Maggid, was a brilliant orator and scholar. He was never speechless and he always had […]

(Courtesy:The Jewish Federation of Toronto – by Benny Mer – October 1, 2003) What can one do when the Ukraine, cradle of Hasidism and fertile […]

From a visit to Berdichev in 1911by Hillel Zeitlin If a visitor to Berdichev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to […]

Manuscript DivisionVernadsky Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of UkraineAddress: Vladimirskaya ulitsa, 62, Kiev, Ukraine Berdichev, Kiev Guberniaor. 21, n. 11. Pinqas de-Hasidei […]

(Courtesy: JewishGen) BERDICHEV:It is now be possible to correctly delineate the Berdichev Jewish cemetery boundaries. The extensive cemetery is bounded on the west by the […]

Volhynia is the northwestern most province of modern day Ukraine. Poland is on its western border with Belarus to the north. For centuries Volhynia had […]