Religious - Jewish - Belarus and Ukraine

Slavic, East European, and Former USSR Resources

Religion - Jewish - Belarus and Ukraine

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, FAITHS, GROUPS, ETC.,: Sites related to Jewish organizations or groups arranged by country or geographic area.

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Belarus	Jewish Khazars of Crimea	Ukraine
Crimean Jews (Krymchaks)	Karaim Jews	-

Jewish Religious Sites for Belarus

General Belarusian Jewish Religious sites

Jews of Belarus. From Jewish Communities of the World.
Belarus Country Page. From NCSJ. [National Conference on Soviet Jewry].
The Jews of Belarus. From East European Jewish Heritage Project.
The East European Jewish Heritage Project.
Jews in Belarus.
Jewish Belarus.
Religion [in Belarus]. From A Belarus Miscellany. [Includes information on Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in Belarus].
Antisemitism Worldwide 2000/1 - Belarus. From The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism.

Belarusian Jewish Historical Topics sites

History of Belarussian Jewry. By Alex Friedman.
JewishGen ShtetLinks for Belarus. A Section from JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy. Their Link to a Map of Belarus in 1882 (Kovno, Vilna, Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, and Mogilev gubernii).
The Volozhyn Yeshiva - The Mother of all Yeshivas.
The Jews of Lithuania and Poland.
Ghettos and the Holocaust Problem in Belorussia. By Leonid Smilovitsky. From The History of Belarus. By Dzmitry Samakhvalau.
Minsk Ghetto: An Issue of Jewish Resistance. By Leonid Smilovitsky. From The History of Belarus. By Dzmitry Samakhvalau.
Brisk D'Lita (Brest-Litovsk) - An historical review of its joys and sufferings. By Avram Chani. From The History of Belarus. By Dzmitry Samakhvalau.
Memories from a childhood in Orsha. By Harry Kalkin.
A History of the Jews of Mir, Belarus.
Zmitrok Biadula, Zydy na Bielarusi (The Jewes in Byelarus), From East European Jewish Affairs Volume 22, Number 2, Winter 1992.
Jews in Lithuania.

Geographical Belarusian Jewish Religious sites

History of Grodno. ©Copyright by Ellen Sadove Renck.
Grodno Online.

Other Belarusian Jewish Religious sites

Chabad Lubavitch or Avner.

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Jewish Religious Sites for Ukraine [Sites in present day Western Ukraine were formerly part of Poland (1920-1939), Austro-Hungarian Empire (17-- -1918), and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania-Poland] [See below for selected Crimean Jewish sites]

General Ukrainian Jewish Religious sites

The Jewish Foundation of Ukraine. Their Explore Jewish Ukraine with the JFU.
The All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress.
Ukraine Country Page. From NCSJ. [National Conference on Soviet Jewry].
Jews of the Ukraine.
Jewish Communities. From RISU.
Jewish Life. From RISU.
Aish a-Tora. Kiev, Ukraine.
Jewish Observer - The Information And Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Jewish Historical Topics sites

Ukraine: Jewish History and Culture. By David M. Dickerson.
The Jews of Lithuania and Poland.
JewishGen ShtetLinks for Ukraine (Including Eastern Galicia). From JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy.
Jews of Galicia.
Gesher Galicia - The Special Interest Group (SIG) for Galician Jewish Family History.
Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz.
A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920. By Henry Abramson. Book notice.

Geographical Ukrainian Jewish Religious sites

"BRZEZANER...." Memorial page to bygone world of Berezhany Jews. From Berezhany. . . A Pearl of Halychyna.
Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community. By David M. Dickerson.
Vinnitsa's Community House.
Czernowitz - Cernauti - Chernovtsy - Chernivtsi. By Iosif Vaisman.
Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine (Stanislawow, Stanislau) Home Page. From JewishGen.
Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and all Ukraine. From RISU.
Sudilkov Online Landsmanshaft - Including the surrounding shetetlekh of: Belokrinich'ye, Gorodishche, Klementovichi, Pleshchin, Shepetovka, Savichi, Volkovtsy, and Zhilintsy.
Jewish Community of Dniepropetrovsk, [Ukraine]. Jewish community restores synagogue in eastern Ukraine [Dnipropetrovsk].
"Gmilus Hesed" Jewish Welfare Centre in Odessa.
Homage to Odessa - Museum of the Jewish People Online.

Other Ukrainian Jewish Religious sites

Jewish-Ukrainian Bibliography - A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Resources in English. By Andrew Gregorovich. 2nd Edition. Toronto: Forum, 1999. 116 p. Book Review.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Krymchaks of the Crimean Peninsula

The Crimean Jews. [Self designation: Krymchaks]. From The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
Krymschaks and Karaims of Crimea. By Alexander Naiman.

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Jewish Religious Sites for the Karaims of the Crimean Peninsula and Adjacent Areas [Turkish Karaim sites are here]

The Karaims.From The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
Krymschaks and Karaims of Crimea. By Alexander Naiman.
Karaims of Crimea (Ukraine). From The Karaite Encyclopedia by Nathan Schur.
Karaism. From The Digital Genizah.
Avraham Firkowicz in Istanbul (1830-1832): Paving the Way for Turkic Nationalism. By Dan Shapira.
Karaites.

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Jewish Khazar Religious Sites

Medieval Sourcebook: The Medieval Jewish Kingdom of the Khazars, 740-1259.
The Khazars. From Jewish Communities of the World.
The Khazars and the Scythians. By Vladimir Pomakov.
Are Russian Jews Descended from the Khazars? By Kevin Alan Brook.
The Jews of Khazaria. By Kevin Alan Brook. [Book Review].
Bibliography of Khazar Studies (1901-Present). Compiled by Kevin Alan Brook.
Khazaria.com. A Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine.
An Introduction to the History of Khazaria. By Kevin Alan Brook,

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