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Berdychiv became the city with the largest share of Jewish population in Ukraine and the Russian Empire. The May Laws of 1882 and other government persecutions affected Jewish population and in 1897, out of the town's population of 53,728, 41,617 (about 80%) were Jewish.
A century later, Berdichev had become an almost entirely Jewish city, with a community of 41600 members of a total 53300 residents, or 80% of the population. In Russian jokes or “anecdotes”, Berdichev was the epitome of a Jewish city.
BERDICHEV, town in the historic region of Volhynia, now in Zhitomir district, Ukraine. Apart from two single references to individual Jews from Berdichev in 1593 and 1602, there is no evidence that a Jewish community existed in Berdichev before 1721.
In the 19th century Berdychiv developed into an important centre of trade and light industry; it became for a time the fourth largest city in Ukraine. During this period the city’s population was predominantly Jewish, and the Hasidic movement was prominent.
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BERDICHEV, town in the historic region of Volhynia, now in Zhitomir district, Ukraine. Apart from two single references to individual Jews from Berdichev in 1593 and 1602, there is no evidence that a Jewish community existed in Berdichev before 1721.
Jul 27, 2020 · Berdichev was once known as the Jewish capital of the Russian Empire—an ir ve’am b’Yisroel, or “a city and mother of Israel.” Eighty percent of its population was Jewish, even that figure being an understatement.
Berdychiv (Ukrainian: Бердичів, Polish: Berdyczów, Yiddish: באַרדיטשעװ, romanized: Barditshev, Russian: Берди́чев, romanized: Berdichev) is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion (district). [1]
