"Echoes From Odessa, the Onetime Jewish Metropolis Now Menaced by Putin"..(subscribe)

[Budi]

I follow this writer, & received this in my email.
I would love to read the entire story of this history, but it requires a subscription to do so.
The subscription is to The Atlantic, I think, & it costs $69.

If anyone has a subscription this is just a heads up to please read the story.
There is such precious history being told.

Here's as much as I can give for now.
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Echoes From Odessa, the Onetime Jewish Metropolis Now Menaced by Putin

The Ukrainian city was a Jewish epicenter before being decimated by Hitler, Stalin and now Putin

By Yair Rosenberg
MARCH 10, 2022
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/622a3fde9277230021b028df/odessa-jews-ukraine-putin-invasion-tchernowitz/

Home to the third-largest Jewish population at the time, Odessa was as unique as its rabbi. A port city whose ships brought not just trade but intellectual ferment, Odessa was host to every sort of Jew—devout, irreligious, Zionist, socialist, Yiddishist, and many more. And Chaim Tchernowitz, the city’s highly unusual Orthodox rabbi, was friends with all of them.

Through his recollections, one can catch a glimpse of the lost world of Odessa’s extraordinarily diverse Jewish life. Here are two such stories...

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. So is this at least in part a religious war?

akin to Stalin's pogroms?

[Budi]

2. I've read a variety of reasons, & sadly yes, the religious one is mentioned too.

Imagine if there had never been a Hitler or Stalin or Putin.

Just reading the intro to this story, I can imagine the happy people. Their music, food, respect, reverence & their collective Love.

This is the area my father's family originated. There is little known where they were scattered until they moved to the US, via Canada, pre WW2. Some later returned to fight Hitler.
The stories are scant & patched together, so reading this piece in the Atlantic is quite a treasure.