Bessarabian Jewish quarter

The history of our ancient city is strongly connected with the history of the Kiev Jewish community. The Jewish population has made an enormous contribution to the development of the city. 

Thanks to Jewish patrons in Kiev there is Besarabsky market and the Polytechnic Institute, the building of Regional hospitals, Bacteriological Institute, the Brodskiy synagogue and Rosenberg, Trinity people's house, as well as many other public, religious, and residential buildings that today serve our city and formed not only architectural but also social-cultural way of Kiev. 

And as true words connoisseur of the ancient Kiev of Igor Golfman: "At all times the Jews loved Kiev, no less than the representatives of other Nations. For many generations of the "people without a country" Kyiv has become not just a refuge, and a place to develop their talents — craftsmen and rabbis, doctors, and writers, musicians and artists, lawyers and entrepreneurs.

Here they were born, grew up, fell in love and worked, went to the front and went to Babi Yar ...".

'Bessarabian Jewish quarter and adjacent streets will give us the opportunity to see buildings that have survived to our days and to remember many names. We will be talking about Lazarus Brodsky and visit the Choral synagogue, built at his expense, Joseph Secare, Lev Ginsburg, Golda Meir, Paul Nathanson, Nathan Rachlin, Elina Bystritskaya, and many others. You can get acquainted with the exposition of the Museum of Sholom Aleichem, a writer whose life and career is inextricably linked with Kiev.