Lviv Jewish Community | Multinational Ukraine: Life Stories

Jewish people have been an integral part of Ukrainian society since ancient times. Before World War II, more than half of the population of many western Ukrainian cities used to be Jewish. In Lviv, their community was one of the largest and most influential.
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[machoke]

It was more than just a fifth of the population, it was over a third.

[louisecorchevolle]

National Hero Bandera very much Multinational think you made a wrong term it is about multicultural The Ukrainian Pogroms were the wildest in former Russian Empire so jEws are a nationality in Ukraine iit is just silly they are Ukrainians

[extanegautham]

Lviv Lemberg Lvov was ⅓ Jewish, not 1/5....equal parts Poles Ukranians Jews...part of Austrohungary and before PolandLithuanian Commonwealth, before the ethnic cleansing of Galicia and Wolyn by Nazi Collaborating Ukrainian nationalists, who slaughtered 100K Poles, with knives and axes, as well as at least that many or is it more, i forget, Jews....i support Ukraine, and Ukraine has obviously changed a lot, and modernized, but the use of Nazi insignia by Azov and other right wing nationalists is scary, not to mention renaming the town with the largest Pogrom in history after the perpertrator of the pogrom, cossack Khelmnitiski, is the other hand, it must be hard to reconcile that the greatest Ukrainian nationalists who resisted Russia in the past, were also antisemites. But you can deny it, esp when now in Lviv they honor the Ukrainaian SS Galician Brigade. After the GErmans the most number of brutal concentration camp guards with Ukrainians and Balts....