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Since the early 18 th century history of Kharkiv is inextricably linked with the history of the Jewish people. The first Jews began to arrive in Kiev from Poland and Turkey for the annual Epiphany fair since the early eighteenth century.
Despite the multiple oppression the Jewish population was grew in Kharkov. By 1917, already 25,000 Jews in Kharkov, development of community institutions and the educational system from kindergarten to the Jewish Gymnasium, a wide layer of Jewish intellectuals and philanthropists, five large synagogues. Choral Synagogue (1913) - the largest in Eastern Europe, built by the winner of the All-Russian contest Jacob Gevirts (1000 seats, 42-foot height to the dome).
Kharkiv National University - the only one in Ukraine, where studied and worked three Nobel Prize winners - the biologist Mechnikov, an economist S. Kuznets and physicist LD Landau. Visiting Kharkiv, you will find such monuments of Jewish culture and architecture, as the Choral Synagogue, Kharkiv kenassas, in which subsequently settled Orchestra Evokans "Building Merchants Bank, St. Petersburg Branch of the World Bank and the Azov-Don Bank, wholly or partially owned wealthy Jews of the city, the Jewish street. Visit the memorial to the victims of genocide in Drobitsky Yar, Kharkov Holocaust Museum - the only museum in such a kind in Ukraine and much more.
