Kiev

Ukraine

Kiev (Kyiv), the historic capital of Ukraine, had its Jewish population grow rapidly in the nineteenth century despite Tsarist restrictions that for a time barred most Jews from residence in the city. Wealthy merchant families such as the Brodskys financed synagogues, a hospital, and schools, making Kiev an important center of Jewish economic, educational, and political life in the Russian Empire, though the community also suffered pogroms in 1881 and 1905.

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