KHARKOV JEWISH COMMUNITY
From the article, “Kharkov (Jewish Community” from “Blackberry”
The following names and information were included in an
article about the Karkov Jewish community:
1866-- there were 775 registered Jewish residents
1887—there were 1,207 Jewish families
1893—67 families of Jewish artisans were expelled (bread and
carpentry shops): L. Rosenbaum (maintained the bakeries)
1898 -tried to expel L. Schechter (chief engineer and head
of the technical dept. of the “Russian Locomotive Society”)
L. Goldenberg, Getroytmanom-Members of a radical social
movement—students
Israel Belkind—one of the foundr of the “Bilu”—Zionist group
Rubinstein, Rabinovich, Rosenzweig----banking,
Soifer brothers—trading houses,
Volkenshtein—contacts with major textile & engineering
firms,
GZ
Dunaevskii—merchant: grain purchasing for export by Louis Dreyfus & Co.
firm.
A. Buras—engineer, created a sewage treatment system
M. Fabrikant—dentist, well-known for facial surgery
A. Hirschmann—ophthalmologist
J.S. Orsha—psychiatrist (converted to Christianity)
Ya (or J.) Bernstein-Cohen—Zionist leader, head of the Local
Assistance Committee
P. Buras (1835-1914)—philanthropist, established a society
to help poor Jews (OPBE)
Rabbi S. Epstein
Dr. B.C. Greydenberg—led the opening of the Kharkov branch
of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment
M. Shliapnikov—published the proceedings of the first
Zionist Congress
R. Kresin—published “Uganda”
E. Braunstein
A. Brudnyi and A. Levinson—heads of youth organization
“Tze’irei Zion”
YG Gevirtsa—architect, won the national contest for the
building of the Choral Synagogue
A.Fishzon, N.Lipavskii, a Segal—theater/troupes
R. Levin—head of Jewish kindergarten (in the OPE), EY
Ianovskaia—male gymnasium
J.L. Wilensky, chairman—Elections in the Kharkov jewish
community (1918)
Other names include:
W. Sofer (his son Yu Soifer), S. Blacksmith, ME Buknik
(cellist), E. Loiter, Ada Sonts, B. Fradkin (Hebrew poet), E. Meletinsky
(linguist)
I. Fisanovich (1914-1944—submarine captain, Hero of the
Soviet Union, etc.), AE Spiller (Major General Veterinary), Mikhail Gurevich
(Major General), ZM Pomerantcev (Major General), VA Zemlerub (Major General),
Gz Glazunov (Major General)
L.a. Kaganovich, M. Khataevich, A. Schlichter (186-1940),
Bernstein (mathematician (1880-1968), L. Landau (physicist), M.P. Trinkler
(physician), L. Bulakhovsky (linguist, L. Gurevich (teacher—1894-?)
Architects: G.G. Wegman, M.D. Felger, S.M. Krawiec, J. Lichtenberg
Composers: I. Dunaevskii, Y. Meitus (1903-1997), D. Klebanov
(1907-1987)
B. Wilner (Director of the Theater of Young Spectators)
MI Scheinin
Holocaust:
Locked
in a synagogue ( "synagogue of Buras", Grazhdanskoy St.): A. Efros (mathematician, Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences), Prof. I. Goldberg (musicologist),
Prof. I.E. Bukinik (violinist), Olga Grigorovskaya (pianist), Rosalia Alidort
(dancer), A.Z. Gurevich (Prof. of medicine)
