Pale of Settlement
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The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which permanent residency by Jewish subjects was allowed, and outside of which
A melamed (Jewish teacher) in 19th century Podolia
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus'. Important Jewish religious and
17th-century wooden synagogue in Gwozdziec (now Hvizdets, Ukraine), which was lost during WW2
Lithuanian Statute of 1529, which provided guarantees of rights for Jews
Cossack Mamay and the Haidamaka hang a Jew by his heels. Ukrainian folk art, 19th century
Grave of Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh