Talk:History of the Jews in Ukraine

Fanya Baron
Hey Historians, I am wondering about what evidence you have that Fanya Baron was jewish... Was she a practicing jew? I ask because I found it very difficult to research her for the Fanya Baron article and would love any other material if you have any. Or are you just going by the name alone? Cheers, Anna  An An  08:20, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Greetings, Anna. Yes, Fanya Baron was a practicing Jew, and a descendant of Vilna Gaon. I am a descendant of her husband Aaron's brother, the one you labelled as a Bolshevik. I'd like to precise, that he didn't betray Fanya, and was himself executed as an Anarchist. I corrected that in your article. Elijah Baron

About terror
The section is severely POV. This material is already covered in Jewish Bolshevism in much more comprehensive and netral manner. ←Humus sapiens ну? 10:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there any factual objections, is Winston Churchill's article factually incorrect? Please be more specific.--Hillock65 10:58, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Please do not engage in revert wars but discuss your objectins first, as it is civilized to do. Thank you.--Hillock65 11:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I did. Read Jewish Bolshevism: "Even Winston Churchill briefly joined this bandwagon, blaming the Russian Revolution on Jews." Churchill was a politician, not a historian. To present these allegations as fact is POV. ←Humus sapiens ну? 11:07, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. Churchill's article is there to illustrate the point. Jewish Bolsheviks, particularly from Ukraine as Trotsky for example did participate in revolutionary terror, what is factually incorrect? It is a well known fact and this page is not only for listing atrocities against Jews but to illuminate all spheres of Jewish life in Ukraine, even as unsavoury as the atrocities allegations. Please be advised, that removing whole sections is considered a vandalism and will be reported. Please see Vandalism. If something is POV in your opinion, make changes, additions - I wouldn't even object to tagging this page but blanking completely whole sections about red terror and famine atrocities is a different matter. These things should be discussed before being removed completely.--Hillock65 11:23, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * What is a well-known fact, that Jews starved Ukrainians? Of course Jews were accused in all kinds of "terror" and conspiracies, but we should rely on academic research. What sources are you using? ←Humus sapiens ну? 11:33, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you realize that you are adding political and not scholarly material? References please. ←Humus sapiens ну? 11:36, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Churchil's article is to illustrate Jewish participation in the revolutionary terror and several allegations were made about Lazar Kaganovich's role in the famine. If these need additional sources, I will provide them, but please do not delete because you don't like them, you may tag them as needing citations and those will be provided in due time.--Hillock65 11:36, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Churchill's article illustrates his political opinion, and nothing more. Please stop this political propaganda. ←Humus sapiens ну? 11:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

And so what? It cannot be used to illustrate the point? Since when? Please stop revert war! If you disagree with facts and allegations, these can be provided and mutually agreed version of Jewish participation in the red terror can be worked out. This is not the page to list Jewish victims, but about all spheres of Jewish life. You do not own this page and other people have the right to express therir ideas. Discuss, add, modify but do not erase completely, this is not civil and counterproductive. I have warned you several times already not to do en masse deletions. --Hillock65 11:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It takes two to edit war. The material is already covered in Jewish Bolshevism. Your sources are a single article written by a British politician (you picked it up from patriot.dk, a hate site), and typical antisemitic allegations (like "Jewish atrocities" - backed by a street poster). See WP:RS. ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

What are yuor objections, to the article by Winston Churchil or the where it is from. If there are inaccuracies in the article I can find it on a site that will be more neutral. As far as I am concerned, the facts are correct and that's what matters. And the picture of a newspaper article that Winston Churchil wrote. I don't see why it can't be used, and cannot understand you reasons. Each time there is a new one, either he is not a historian, this is from a wrong site and it's been covered. Fine, I am not elaborating on atrocities, but mentioning that Jews from Ukraine participated in terror is quite warranted. This sit is about Jews from Ukraine and about all events where they participated. I do not elaborate and do not clash with another article but merely mention about the fact and illustrate it. --Hillock65 02:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Please do not insert extreme minority opinions from unreliable sources again; this is a violation of policy. Jayjg (talk) 03:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Please do not engage in revert war. You do not own this article, I do not express my opinion but those supported by credible sources. Check before you jump to conclusions. Sir Winston Churchil and Robert Conquest did not engage in any conspiracies! Please check Vandalism. Even if you disagree, assinging labels and accusations will not help reach a neutral version. Thank you.--Hillock65 04:13, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * "Please do not engage in revert war. You do not own this article". LOL! Please see irony. Jayjg (talk) 22:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I have utmost respect for W. Churchill as a political leader, but he is not an expert on the History of the Jews in Ukraine. There is a difference between a politician and a scholar.
 * A street poster may serve as an example for Antisemitism article but not a good source for History of the Jews in Ukraine.
 * The accusation that the Jews caused the Holodomor is a typical antisemitic canard. The logic "Kaganovich was there, therefore Jews caused it" is ridiculous. Molotov, Postyshev are not even Jewish.
 * "Jews from Ukraine participated in terror" - together with Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Georgians, Latvians, etc. What is so notable about it? BTW, the terror was against Jews as well. Jewish Bolsheviks, the link you repeatedly removed, already describes this in detail. ←Humus sapiens ну? 04:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I completely aggre about antisemitic point on wiew that all what happened in Ukraine since revolution go on Jewish not on Communist party were was all nationalities connected by one idea to win revolution by any cost! 2601:586:CC01:DB00:B954:C158:FFC3:83E8 (talk) 14:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

He doesn't need to be an expert. He is a famous statesmand and polition, his thoughts are relevant and worth attention. One does not need to be a scholar to be used as a reference. For the second time, it is not a street poster, but a photo of a newspaper article he wrote. It is relevant as these are the thoughts on the subject of one of the world's greatest politians. Please be careful with your standard accusations of antisemetism, apart from bad faith, this is slanderous and unfounded. I give sources, for example a leading historian and scholar on the subject Robert Conquest. It is his opinion that Kaganovich is responsible. No one assigns blame to all Jews, do not manipulate the truth. It merely states that some Jews participated in genocide and Red Terror. These are verified by facts. What is notable is that apart from being in the usual role of a victim, you also will have to get used to the idea that some Jews were also mass murderers. I ask you again, please do not engage in revert war, it will not help - problems are decided in a discussion prefferably without putting commonplace labels. Thank you.--Hillock65 04:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, actually, he does need to be a recognized expert in the subject, not a politician writing half a century ago, and being misused by you. Jayjg (talk) 22:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Why didn't you write anything about "Georgian terror" or "Georgian atrocities"? Josef Stalin was, after all, the Soviet leader at that time and he was the one who determined the policy. There were other Georgians among the communist leadership, notably Lavrentiy Beria. Beit Or 07:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

It is a fact that many Jews supported the Soviet Union communist regime, partcularly in the early period - I agree with Hillock65 that this should be reflected in the article, albeit Humus have a point that we need to be careful about NPOV.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


 * How do you define "many"? And then, how do you know it? I'm not aware of any polls conducted among Ukrainian Jews at that time. Beit Or 21:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * How do I know it? Jewish Bolshevism, and good refs. Particulary, a quick search yelds this. I have asked a specialist for more refs, Ukraine is not my specialization.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 12:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * "Many Bolsheviks were Jews" is not the same as "many Jews were Bolsheviks". In the link you have provided, you have omitted the crucial word "assimilated". At the time, very few Ukrainian Jews were assimilated. Beit Or 14:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Um, I don't see what assimilation has to do with that issue. Here is another useful ref from an Isreali book, nothing less, that notes that many Jews cooperated with the Soviet regime. And please note nobody here (I hope) is trying to assing blame: it was a reasonable course of action for them then, and for us it should be nothing more (or less) then stating a historical fact.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

It is the height of absurdity, and verging on (if not crossing over the line into) antisemitism, to create a section titled "Jewish atrocties during the Ukrainian famine", in which the actions of one ethnic Jew and two non-Jews are referred to. There were literally millions of Jews living in the Ukraine at the time; this kind of abuse of marginal sources is disturbing. Jayjg (talk) 22:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Still not seeing any response on the Talk: page from the many reverters. Is anyone seriously suggesting that an 87 year old article in the Sunday Herald is a "reliable source" for this extreme POV? Even if written by Winston Churchill? Jayjg (talk) 19:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Why would an 87 year old article not be a reliable source for an 87 year old event? Is that the only objection you can think of? And what about Kaganovich, the article specifically said that no one speads the blame on all Jews but at the same time horrendous crimes of individuals sould not be overlooked either? What's the objection there? Or is it a pretext to get rid of it altogether?--Hillock65 00:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * This material is covered in Jewish Bolshevism in a NPOV manner. Do not try to turn this section/article into a POV fork. ←Humus sapiens ну? 01:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

protection
I've protected this page to what I see as the less controversial version. I encourage various editors to work towards consensus here on the talk page. As you reach agreement on individual points, an admin (either me or someone else) can include them in the regular page. Protection can be lifted at some later point. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bucketsofg (talk • contribs) 19:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC).


 *  2006-12-28T02:19:02 Bucketsofg (Talk | contribs | block) m (Protected History of the Jews in Ukraine: down-grade to semiprotect [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]) but is now on wiki-break so I have "acquired" it. Discuss... William M. Connolley 17:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

consensus on kievian letter?
In the first paragraph of the medieval section, there is one sentence that is different between the two versions (in italics, below):
 * Jewish settlements in Ukraine can be traced back to the 8th century. Possibly, Jewish refugees from the Byzantine Empire, Persia, and Mesopotamia, fleeing from persecution by Christians throughout Europe, settled in the Khazar Khaganate. The first written document, Kievian Letter, that acknowleges existance of jewish community in Kievan Rus' is dated by early 10th century (or possibly 11th century).

Is there consensus as to whether or not to include this? Or how to edit the whole paragraph to make it acceptable to everyone? Buck  ets  ofg 19:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

In regards to that article I don't understand why if someone doesn't like one or two neutral sentences they have to revert the whole article and refuse to discuss any changes? I believe that 80-90% of the text should not be objected to as there is nothing controversial there. Maybe indeed Hillock65 should have discussed the matter more thoroughly and discuss the changes first.

I consider that sections Kievan Rus and Ukrainian Revolution, added Hillock65 can not cause such debates and must be discussed apart. --Yakudza 16:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Greek Jewish Colonists of the Black Sea Region
This article should mention the numerous Greek Jewish settlements which existed on the Black Sea Coast of Ukraine and the Crimea from the 1st Century AD. The Khazar Khanate is certainly not the first period of Jewish settlement in Ukraine. Also, Rhadanite Jewish traders from Babylonia frequented the territory of Ukraine, conducting trade between the Orient and Western Europe.

Lists of Jews who...
Today two lists were added to this article: Jews who made contributions to Ukrainian culture, and Jews who made contributions to world culture. I began to edit them, as, for example, Lazar Kaganovich clearly did not belong, Mikhail Goldstein's contributions were enjoyed outside the Ukraine, Rheinhold Gliere was not Jewish, (I wonder about some others) etc. Now I see that the second list is loaded with politicians, including Golda Meir. It is clear that the titles of the lists are not accurate, and even if they were, it is not clear that they are appropriate for the article. I have deleted both in their entirety. Jd2718 17:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Cossack Uprising and the Deluge
I want to know, how cossacks can massacred from 50 to several thousands Jews when total number of Jewish population in Ukrain at the same time was about 51 thousands? Even if cossacks have massacred all ukrainian jews (that is not true), they can not to massacre several thousands Jews. It's obvious fudge! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.123.153.25 (talk) 09:28, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Ukrainian National Republic
During the period of the UNR there were a number of ministers who were Jewish. There was also established a Ministry for Jewish Affairs which if I remember correctly was a first in Europe. Also the Ukrainian Banknotes of the UNR were also printed with characters in Hebrew letters in Yiddish which I think was also a first. (Maybe Austro-Hugary was a possible first). Would this be worthy of inclussion in this section. Bandurist 03:24, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Jewish Cossacks
I've deleted a section devoted to "Jewish Cossacks" as trivial. At best, their one-time existence might merit a single sentence. Anything beyond that is clearly undue weight, as no one is claiming that their existence or non-existence has any bearing on the history of Jews in the Ukraine. This is the prototypical footnote to history. The editor who added the section references WP's article on the subject. In fact, the article is more of an essay than an article, -- gee whiz, bet you didn't know any Jews were Cossacks -- and I will be nominating that article for deletion. Jd2718 (talk) 01:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * To my mind, this issue is much more important, than it seems to some editors. If the section about alleged or possible wrongdoings of Cossacks towards Jews exists, and anti-semitism in Ukraine is also portrayed, why not to present other side of that problem? Cossacks are often seen as one of the Ukrainian symbols, so why not to tell the truth about their acceptance of Jews? This section (maybe written in some other way) is fully relevant and appropriate here. I see in the deletion of this section clear prejudice and implementation of personal attitude to the problem.Ans-mo (talk) 05:59, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * There are no "sides" here. "Alleged" wrongdoings of Cossacks to the Jews is well documented and widely covered. True enough that until recently a greatly exaggerated figures for the number of Jews killed at Khmelnytsky uprising was widely popular but even corrected more recently, this figure gives tens of thousand. Jewish Cossacks seems to me a spoof article devoted to attempting to prove the lack of hostility of Cossacks to Jews and build on some known incidents of Jews serving to Cossacks in some administrative functions (which does not make them Cossacks in any case.) The tensions had a very long history based on that time's lack of religious tolerance, administrative functions Jews performed in Orthodox lands and a widely known tend to violence among Cossacks. The combination of these factors created the events on the ground which were pretty ugly but not uncommon in those times. --Irpen 06:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Presence of Jews among Cossacks is also documented and proven by facts, though this topic is not so popular in propaganda "clichees". There are many historical sources, which confirm that. Here is an example article in Ukrainian: http://amklib113.ru/bbl/kzk/ Ans-mo (talk) 09:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

"Presence of Jews among Cossacks" is not what's disputed. But note that their mere presense does not make them Cossacks themselves. In Ukraine Jews were "present" in many places. --Irpen 23:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The point is not to deny some regrettable sides in the history of Cossacks and Jews, but to present more neutral and objective picture of the history. That's why the mentioning of Jews presence among Ukrainian Cossacks deserves to be mentioned in the article and Wikipedia.Ans-mo (talk) 06:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's fine. But Jews being present among the Ukrainian Cossacks does not make the Jews to be Cossacks themselves. Jews were among Cossacks all right. However, they were not (and could not be) Cossacks. You've got to be a Christian to be that. --Irpen 06:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * We are talking here (if I am not mistaken) not only about Jews by religion, but also about Jews by ethnic background. It is known, that Cossacks demanded conversion to Orthodoxy, why could not be such converts among ethnic Jews? Such cases were documented. Ans-mo (talk) 12:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That's quite a sweeping statement which needs to be backed up and placed in its correct copntext ... chronologically, geographically etc.
 * We know that the Nazi's had a special Jewish police operating in and around the ghettos. The reason, size, tasks can be discussed and disputed but they did exist and there is evidence that they existed. You may not like it, you may prefer to avoid such information, but the evidence does exist.
 * Similarly, there is evidence that there existed Jewish Cossacks. Where, exactly? Why?, how many etc? It is not up to us to say, just to report that there is evidence here and here in studies here and here and distortions here and here etc.
 * As there is evidence that there have existed Jewish vegetarians. Existence ≠ Notability. (Actually, the 'evidence' is mostly about an individual here and there, and a half-year failed experiment somewhere else...) Jd2718 (talk) 12:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * History is not as clean cut, sanitized and well catagorized as we may presume. Bandurist (talk) 10:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Ans-mo, the concept of "Jews by blood" which assumes Jews' being an ethnicity is rather novel and dates itself only to the twentieth century. In the earlier context the concept is an outright anachronism. You probably know that in the Russian Empire "Jew" was a social status that entitled the person's position in the society giving him/her certain burdens (as well as some rights), Main burdens were the residence restrictions, education quotas, land ownership restrictions as well as some others. So, as you certainly know as well, these restrictions were immediately revoked as soon as the person converted to Orthodox Christianity. In fact the was no concept of ethnicity at all (Jewish or not) in the context of the earlier times. The 1897 Russian Census queried about the mother tongue and religion and only these concepts were firmly established by then. Here we are talking even much earlier times. "Jews by ethnic background" is certainly an anachronism for Cossack times and the Jewish person who converted to Christianity was not anymore a Jew in any meaningful sense. --Irpen 18:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The concept of "Jews by blood" as direct descendants of "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" is a well-known and important concept of the Bible and therefore is known for all Christian communities. Maybe different times and circumstances produced different interpretations to that, but the point of blood could not be omitted.Ans-mo (talk) 09:31, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Cossack Uprising and the Deluge
If Jewish population at the time of the Uprising was about fifty thousand, how the uprising could cost the life of fifty thousand or hundred thousands of jews, as say the text?--Enkiduk (talk) 03:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

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"Notable Ukrainian Jews"
I deleted a number of entries from the list of Notable Ukrainian Jews because this does not correctly describe the individuals. Specifically:

Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts

Shatner was born on March 22, 1931, in the Côte Saint-Luc neighbourhood of Montreal

Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, to Jewish parents in the affluent East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia

Barr was born in Salt Lake City

Peter Yarrow was born in New York City, New York

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York

Goffman was born in 1922 in Mannville, Alberta

The above are quotes from their respective Wikipedia entries. Being descended from immigrants does not give the child the parents' nationality. I have removed these entries from the section on Notable Ukrainian Jews. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 20:42, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I see that Burakov stuck Shatner & Nimoy back into the article. I have removed them again (see a few lines above for their birthplaces). Note that others in the list in the article (Kunis, Salta and Stern) moved to the US in childhood or, in Stern's case, in infancy. To me it seems tendentious to refer to them as Ukrainian Jews. They are Ukrainian-born American Jews. I have created separate lists for "Ukrainian-descended American Jews" and "Ukrainian-born American Jews." Perhaps this will satisfy those who wish to claim them as Ukrainian Jews. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 19:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Collage of Ukrainian Jews
I crated a collage of Ukrainian Jews which includes:

Leo Ornstein • Sholom Aleichem • Leon Trotsky • Isaak Babel • Mila Kunis Golda Meir • Vladimir Horowitz • Waldemar Haffkine • Selman Waksman • Abraham Goldfaden

It was hard to create because the majority of Russian and American Jews have at least one grandfather from Ukraine, but I decided to stick to those who actually were born in Ukraine. Guitar hero on the roof (talk) 12:25, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Number of Jews in Ukraine
The article noted that in Ukraine for only 71,500 Jews. But according to the Census of 2001 there 103,600 (I do not know how they counted their number in 2010 because I did not find such information in Ukrainian, even on the State Statistics Committee site). I already wrote about it once, but someone told me that it is necessary to have a uniform data from one source. But I believe that the official census data more reliable. Please correct the data.--Шиманський Василь (talk) 08:37, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I think the table shows the number of jews in the whole soviet union. The numbers for Ukraine must be lower. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.230.248.144 (talk) 12:38, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Very nice picture selections
I have to say, who ever made this selection should get the special award given out by the President of Israel every year. Perfect selection, very good representation of different areas.

I especially want to know how good it is Waldemar Haffkine is in. Even though it's an obvious selection (after all, how many people in their lives were named "a saviour of humanity"), it seems many forgot about him, even though very few left a mark like him on humanity.

I also love the cultural approach the selection has. Ukraine was always the center of Jewish culture (and by Jewish I mean Yiddish). Sholem Aleichem, the most influential name in Jewish literature, Abraham Goldfaden, the father of the Jewish modern theatre, and Isaac Babel, "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry", were all born in Ukraine, and I am happy to see non of them were forgotten.

Well done to those people who did such a great job! When someone tells a story (talk) 09:37, 21 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There is an ongoing debate on the similar collage at Talk:History of the Jews in Russia (see at the bottom of that page). I made some proposals there which would affect also this page, if one would accept them here. So I was asked to put my arguments also on this page. Here they are:


 * There are a large number of distinguished persons which would qualify to appear on such collages. Therefore one should have no more than one person from each area of activity, and try to cover as broad areas as possible. One should also not put the same image twice on the same page. If one person is shown in the collage, its portrait should not appear in the text body, because there are other distinguished candidates from the same area.
 * In the coverage of different areas, one should consider which areas have had especially strong contributions and choose the "granularity" appropriately. E.g. there were so many "stars" in classical music that it is reasonable to make it with "finer" granularity: at least a pianist and a violinist. On the other hand, the contributions in fine arts are less prominent, so it's enough to have one painter (if any), and not necessary to have one for the realism, another for the avant-garde etc.
 * Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic countries were at some time part of Russia, but their pages have their own collages. Therefore if there are several strong candidates for the same area, one should try to spread them across the different pages, i.e. put the one on the Russian Jews page, and the other on the Ukrainian one etc.
 * Many persons emigrated and made their careers abroad. If possible, one should choose those who have some cultural connection to the country of birth, i.e. at least speaks Ukrainian or Russian.

The changes for this page in light of this proposal would be:
 * Choose only one prose writer and leave the other for the Russian page. E.g. keep Sholom Aleichem here, but remove Babel and put him on the Russian page.
 * Add a philosopher Lev Shestov here on the Ukrainian page. The Russian page will get Ayn Rand.
 * As both pages need a distinguished politician, keep Trotsky here but leave Golda Meyr for the Russian page.
 * Add a great violinist here like David Oistrakh, as there were so many different musicians.
 * Add a physicist like Abram Ioffe, the "father" of modern Russian (Soviet) physics.

Adding 2 more names would allow to change the dimensions to 3 columns times 4 rows and thus make it thinner, which is better for the readability of the page. --Off-shell (talk) 19:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Great suggestions! I don't think we should remove people just because the appear on the Russian Jews page, the fact is, it overlaps so it's good to highlight it by using the same people! Abram Ioffe, Lev Shestov and David Oistrakh are brilliant suggestions! We need two more for another line of 5. Those two have to be women because otherwise the balance between men and women is horrible in the collage! What options do we have? I can think only of Angelica Balabanoff. 90.198.246.7 (talk) 21:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, with Trotsky already in the collage, I would hesitate to put further communist activists here. :) Perhaps, Yunna Morits? Maria Gorokhovskaya? --Off-shell (talk) 22:48, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem with Maria Gorokhovskaya is the fact we don't have a picture of her. Yunna Morits is a great proposal, I'd even say a must. Is Ida Kamińska a rational proposal to go along with her?
 * By the way, shell we simply add another line of 5 or switch the whole style to lines of 3 or something like that? In both cases we will need to add 5 people to the collage anyway so it won't make it harder in terms of people.
 * PS this is the account I usually don't bother login in to, just to make sure to make it clear it's not sock-puppeting. Mr. Sort It Out (talk) 23:31, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

I cannot judge on Kaminska. And Mila Kunis is also an actress. In my opinion, from all considered female candidates only Golda Meir is distinguished enough to appear in the collage. What about this? Other candidates could be: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Vladimir Arnold, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Leonid Utyosov. As alternatives to Sholom Aleikhem who is included in several other pages, one may consider Isaak Babel, Vasily Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg. --Off-shell (talk) 19:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC) --Off-shell (talk) 19:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I really like it, it definitely should be used as a "base". I do think though we should add another line and bring in the principle of middle line all female (we have enough candidates we can afford it).
 * My only issue is... are we not over-doing the whole musician thing? I know there were many great Jewish musicians, but still, 4 would be a lot. What if we bring in Leonid Utyosov instead of Leo Ornstein? We already have Vladimir Horowitz representing the piano players, and we get to represent another music genre. Jews did play a huge role in Soviet Jazz.
 * I think it's a very smart idea to add Menachem Mendel Schneerson, due to the fact he because such a famous recognizable figure and a spiritual leader of the whole Chabad movement. 90.198.246.7 (talk) 22:12, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

So here is my proposition based on your proposition+the comments I added:

What do you think? 90.198.246.7 (talk) 22:12, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Sonia Delaunay, a painter, would fit better than Ida Kamińska. I could make a cut from the image at her page. --Off-shell (talk) 00:30, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree, but the problem is we don't have an image of her. I we would that would be amazing, she beats practically every lady on the list except Golda and Kunis. 90.198.246.7 (talk) 07:40, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Here it is. Sonia Delaunay cropped.jpg --Off-shell (talk) 08:37, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Russia stamp L.Utyosov 1999 2r cropped.jpg Here is also a better picture of Utyosov. --Off-shell (talk) 08:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, thank you! Sonia Delaunay is a great addition to the collage and the new Utyosov picture looks much more professional! 90.198.246.7 (talk) 10:40, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The traditional measures of keeping the Russian Empire free of Jews
The article tries to suggest that Russia was tradionally against Jews

The sentence "The traditional measure of keeping the Russian Empire free of Jews" claims that there was always a desire to keep Jews away from Russia. The small part of Jews was rather a coincidence and ended with the Polish divisions. In fact the Russian progroms started only after 1880. GeorgeDorgan (talk) 06:45, 27 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The page Antisemitism in the Russian Empire contains more details and citations on this issue. --Off-shell (talk) 22:15, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

He (Petlura) is often considered to be the perpetrator

 * It's biased, the other POV not presented. Unsourced.
 * Was Petlura murdered due to his anti-Semitism or rather anti-Soviet activities?
 * Pinchas Krasny or Pinkhas as in Petlura?

Xx236 (talk) 06:37, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Proskurov pogrom ?
Was it one pogrom or two? Mentioned in two subsections. There exists Proskurov pogrom, which should be linked here.Xx236 (talk) 06:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Restrictions on Jews that had existed in the formerly independent countries were now lifted

 * Which restrictions in which countries? Human rights in the SU, tell me more about them...
 * Many Polish Jews were murderd by the Soviets (Katyn, 1941 prison massacres) or imprisoned in Gulag, many starved. Some Jews left the SU with the Anders' Army, the majority of them settled in Palestine.
 * Jewish religion was persecuted in the SU.Xx236 (talk) 07:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Holodomor
Interesting that the page doesn't mention the Holodomor.Xx236 (talk) 09:21, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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As you can see here (pg 624), there were 100,000 Jews living in Ukraine in 2002 (NOT 400,000), while there's no source to support 400,000 Jews in 2014 (dead link).--יניב הורון (Yaniv) (talk) 10:22, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Kyiv(110,000), Dnepropetrovsk (60,000), Kharkov (45,000), and Odessa (45,000), per http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/UA.

--Galassi (talk) 23:37, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Any idea how these numbers have been determined? For example, the number of people who self-identified as a "Jew" in Ukraine during a population census would be significantly smaller than the number of people with the Right_of_return (the numbers by the Jewish Congress?). One would think such numbers should be generally taken from an official population census. There is nothing wrong with alternative estimates, but the source must clearly say how these numbers have been determined. My very best wishes (talk) 20:12, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Up until 2001 there was an official census - which I think we should be using. Post 2001 it is estimates. I am unsure on the RSness (and currentness) of the WJC. Extended or crypto Jews are typically counted separately - but if we were to include them we should do so consistently - more than 300k+ Jew left Ukraine 1990-2010 - e.g. this diff which placed 487k at 1989 and 420k at 2002 makes no sense in relation to the mass migration. The current article also is a mess on the per city estimates.Icewhiz (talk) 20:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree.--Galassi (talk) 21:02, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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Political Activism and Emigration Section is of dubious quality
This section has no citations, contradicts the linked further reading articles, and plays into anti-semetic canards that have been going around the internet lately about the soviet union being founded by Jews. (Jewish Bolshevism).

I can't speak to the second paragraph as much, but it probably should at least cite one source.

2603:7000:2100:2031:0:0:0:1DCB (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2022 (UTC) Coen D. Needell

Pogroms topic mentioned
Pogroms have started way before the 1821. There were pogroms happening during the black plague which the Jewish and Muslim communities were both blamed for and attacked for. i guess the phrasing needs to be updated or more research is needed Shelly098 (talk) 00:40, 14 May 2024 (UTC)