Nope those were the reason there were so few Jews left in Ukraine. Still the most of all the USSR’s republics, though. Not entirely surprising Ukraine has been habitually multiethnic since pretty much forever and it’s not exactly far from Jerusalem.
It’s also important to remember that Ukraine was an incredibly good area to farm, had easy trade connections and was outside the control of catholic nations - so it was an attractive destination for refugees of all kinds… that changed drastically when Tsarist Russia forced conformity (aka effectively a genocide) in the 1860s but before that point that area looked quite ethnicly diverse with an especially large Kazakh population.
I wonder how that happened 🤔
You think there were a lot of Jews in Ukraine because there were anti-Semitic nationalists in Ukraine?
Nope those were the reason there were so few Jews left in Ukraine. Still the most of all the USSR’s republics, though. Not entirely surprising Ukraine has been habitually multiethnic since pretty much forever and it’s not exactly far from Jerusalem.
It’s also important to remember that Ukraine was an incredibly good area to farm, had easy trade connections and was outside the control of catholic nations - so it was an attractive destination for refugees of all kinds… that changed drastically when Tsarist Russia forced conformity (aka effectively a genocide) in the 1860s but before that point that area looked quite ethnicly diverse with an especially large Kazakh population.