The Jewish community was formed in Nikolaev practically from the very foundation of the city. Community leader [ when? ] Rabbi Shalom Gottlieb [1]
Jews were primarily engaged in trade and pharmacy. In 1822, the Old Synagogue was erected on Chernigovskaya Street (d. 13) [2] . There was a house of worship and a school at the synagogue. In 1884, on the corner of Bolshaya Morskaya and Faleevskaya streets , a two-story Choral Synagogue was erected. In March 1885, the ceremonial ceremony of placing the Torah scrolls in Aron-a-Kodesh took place [3] .
Noteworthy is the birth of Menachem Mendel Schneerson , one of the most prominent Jewish figures of the 20th century , the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe , in Nikolaev in 1902 . In March-April 2002, numerous events related to its 100th anniversary were held in Nikolaev .
The choral synagogue was closed in 1928 (the building was turned into a club for Jewish workers), and the Old Synagogue in 1935. By 1941, in Nikolaev there was only one Chabad prayer house ( at Shevchenko 56) - a large one-story building in which, after the war, the prayer house of Christian Baptists was located .
On December 9, 1946, the Jewish religious community of the city was registered. There were only 549 people who believed at that time. Since the Chabad prayer house was given to the Baptists , they decided to return the small Ashkenazi prayer house on Chernigovskaya Street, 19. Moses Fuchs, who at that time was already 72 years old, was elected rabbi. The parishioners were mostly elderly people. They invited cantors from Odessa or Lviv for big holidays, since there was none of their own. The synagogue was kept at the expense of the donations of the parishioners. With the death of another rabbi on April 21, 1962, by decision of the Nikolaev Oblast Executive Committee, the only synagogue in the region was closed. In 1970, the last 7 copies of the Torah were transferred to the Odessa religious community.
On August 4, 1992, in Nikolaev , a synagogue was again opened in the old building of the prayer school on Karl Liebknecht Street , 15 [4] . The first rabbi was US citizen Baroll Antipis, and Boruch Kitnitz was elected chairman of the Jewish religious community. In the beginning of September 1999 , on the eve of the Jewish New Year , the Minister of Israel for Religious Affairs Yitzhak Cohen visited the Nikolaev Jews. Among those accompanying the guest in Nikolaev were the chairman of the Israeli Cultural Center in Kiev, Shmuel Livne, and the rabbi of Kherson, Joseph Wolf.
The Jewish national school Or Menachem [5] , the kindergarten Haya Mushka [6] operates under the community .
The Yakhad newspaper is published [7]
Notes
- ↑ Message from Rabbi Shalom Gottlieb
- ↑ Old synagogue in Nikolaev
- ↑ Choral synagogue in Nikolaev, Nikolaev choral synagogue
- ↑ "Nikolaev Jewish Religious Community", synagogue (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 17, 2013. Archived July 25, 2014.
- ↑ Jewish school "Or Menachem"
- ↑ Jewish kindergarten "Haya Mushka"
- ↑ Nikolaev regional Jewish newspaper "Yahad"