Every year thousands of Hasidic Jews fly in from around the world to visit their spiritual leader’s grave in Uman – much to the consternation of some of the localsThe shops take payment in shekels, Israeli police patrols move through throngs of Hasidic Jewish men in white prayer robes, and everywhere there are signs and adverts in Hebrew. This is not Israel, however, but Pushkin street in Ukraine’s Uman, a nondescript town of Soviet apartment blocks, cracked pavements and overgrown grass verges around 130 miles south of Kiev. Related: Researchers open ‘neglected chapter’ of Ukraine’s Holocaust history … …read more
Source: The Guardian
