Bershad

Bershad

Bershad ( _uk. Бершадь, translit., "Bershad’"), is a small city in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Bershadsky Raion (district).

The population is around 13,300 (as of 2001).

Bershad is home to the football club FC Bershad in the Persha Liha (season 2005-06).

In 1900 the Jewish population of Bershad was 4,500, out of a total population of 7,000. The Jewish artisans numbered about 500. The community possessed one synagogue and six houses of prayer. In June, 1648, during the uprising of the Cossacks under Chmielnicky (Bohdan Khmelnytsky), the most bloodthirsty of his leaders—Maksim Krivonos—conquered Bershad and slew all the Jews and Catholics . S. A. Bershadski, the celebrated historian of the Russian Jews, descended from a Cossack family at Bershad, where his great-grandfather officiated as a Greek Orthodox priest (Greek Orthodox Church).

Bershad was famous in the middle of the nineteenth century for its Jewish weavers of the tallit (scarfs used by the Jews during prayer in the day-time). But at the end of the century the demand decreased, and the industry declined, leading many of the weavers to emigrate to America.

In 1941, the Romanian forces transformed this city into a ghetto, where thousands of Jews were starved to death, including local Yiddish writer Mordechai Goldenberg. Many of the victims were brought in from Bessarabia.

External links

* [http://bershad.com.ua/ Unofficial city portal]


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