Berdichev

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Berdichev is a historic city in present-day Ukraine, long known as a major center of Jewish life and commerce in Eastern Europe.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Berdychiv 6
Berdichev canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
country Ukraine
foundedInCentury 15th century
grantedMagdeburgRights 1795
hadLargeJewishPopulationUntil World War II
hasEthnicCommunity Jews
Poles
Russians
Ukrainians
hasLandmark Carmelite Monastery of the Immaculate Conception
linked to: Carmelite monastery

Jewish cemetery of Berdichev
Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev Synagogue
St. Barbara Church
hasNotableResident Joseph Conrad
Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Sholem Asch
Vasiliy Grossman
historicalRegion Podolia
Volhynia
knownFor Hasidic Judaism
linked to: Hasidism

Hebrew and Yiddish printing
Jewish commerce
Jewish religious life
Jewish scholarship
banking and trade
market town
printing and publishing
languageUsedHistorically Hebrew
Polish
Russian
Ukrainian
Yiddish
locatedIn Eastern Europe
Right-bank Ukraine
Zhytomyr Oblast NERFINISHED
locatedOnRiver Hnylopiat River NERFINISHED
occupationBegan 1941
occupiedBy Nazi Germany
partOf Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
linked to: Soviet Ukraine

independent Ukraine
religiousCenterFor Hasidic Jews
linked to: Hasidism

Orthodox Jews
sufferedEvent Holocaust
Nazi occupation
wasMajorJewishCenterInCentury 18th century
19th century

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Berditchev, Russian Empire modernName Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev
Joseph Conrad placeOfBirth Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev
Zhytomyr Oblast containsCity Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev
Gniezno hasTwinTown Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev
Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev deathPlace Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev
Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev placeOfBurial Berdychiv
linked to: Berdichev