Ukraine Jewish Records: Difference between revisions

The history of the Jews in Ukraine goes back over a thousand years. In the westernmost area of Ukraine, Jews were mentioned for the first time in 1030. Jews worked as artisans and merchants while a smaller number were farmers. By the 1760s, the Jewish population in Ukraine had reached about 300,000. Most were clustered in communities near the Dnieper River, and in Volhynia, Podolia, Braslav, Rus Czerwona, and Kiev guberni. Because of the economic success of the Jews, many Ukrainian peasants resented them. Tensions between Jews and the Ukrainian populations continued throughout the centuries. In 1881, Alexander II was assassinated and rumors circulated that Jews were behind it. A wave of large-scale anti-Jewish violence, called pogroms, swept through the southern Russian Empire, including Ukraine throughout the mid to late 1800s. During the 1917 Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, an estimated 31,071 Jews were killed during between 1918 and 1920. During the establishment of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-21), pogroms continued to be perpetrated on Ukrainian territory. In Ukraine, the number of civilian Jews killed during the period was between thirty-five and fifty thousands. Massive pogroms continued until 1921. In September 1939, the first Jews living in the western regions under Nazi control were forced into ghettos, and later sent to death camps, which continued throughout the remainder of the war. After WWII, many surviving Jews left Ukraine for the United States or Israel. After the fall of the Soviet Union, roughly three-quarters of the remaining Jewish population left Ukraine. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "History of the Jews in Ukraine", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ukraine, accessed 1 Dec 2020.</ref>

[https://lipesdatabase.com/how-to-use-the-database/ '''Lipes Genealogy Database'''] has indexed portions of census records from the City of Odessa and the Kiev Gubernia. In order to search a limited version of the database, you will need to create an account, which can be done for free. The full version of the database starts at 10 Euros per day. If you wish to order the original document through Lipes, you will be charged an additional fee.   

[https://lipesdatabase.com/how-to-use-the-database/ '''Lipes Genealogy Database'''] has indexed portions of revision list records from select areas in the Kiev, Podolsk and Volhynia guberni. In order to search a limited version of the database, you will need to create an account, which can be done for free. The full version of the database starts at 10 Euros per day. If you wish to order the original document through Lipes, you will be charged an additional fee.

Various Records are available for locations in Transcarpathia and Stanisław Voivodeships; Volhynia, Katerynoslav, Kiev, Podolsk, Poltava, Kherson, and Chernihiv provinces.

*The Kiev Gubernia Revision List portal is found [https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0:%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%97_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%97 here]

[https://lipesdatabase.com/how-to-use-the-database/ '''Lipes Genealogy Database'''] has indexed portions of metrical books from Kiev, Cherson and Ekaterinoslav gubernias. In order to search a limited version of the database, you will need to create an account, which can be done for free. The full version of the database starts at 20 Euros for 3 days (About $7.75 per day). If you wish to order the original document through Lipes, you will be charged an additional fee. Lipe's website also offers a translation for the ordered documents for a markup as well.

Alex Krakovsky uses freedom of information laws to make records from Ukrainian archives widely available and then publishes digital images of the records on various Wiki pages. Metrical books are available for locations in Transcarpathia and Stanisław Voivodeships; Volhynia, Katerynoslav, Kiev, Podolsk, Poltava, Zhitomir, and Kherson provinces.   

====Harkavy Collection of Pinkassim Vernadskiy Library in Kiev, Ukraine====

See [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/Harkavycollect.pdf '''this document'''] for an inventory of Jewish related resources found in the Pinkassim Vernadskiy Library in Kiev, Ukraine. Various society, memorial books, lists of merchants and other records are available.