![]() Several sources report that the park was opened for a short time on 27 April before the announcement to evacuate the city was made. It was to have its grand opening on, in time for the May Day celebrations, but these plans were cancelled on 26 April, when the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away. Of the worst nuclear accident ever, but it is also the place where the history of Hassidic Twersky Dynasty was born.The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, Ukraine. Year, with the anniversary of the death of the Grand Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky Admur of Chernobyl, which occurred on 31 October 1787, a pilgrimage takes place to pray at the graves of theirįounders and venerate the places of worship of their religion, such as the synagogue, now reduced to an anonymous abandoned building, but still steeped in history. ![]() The graves are located in Chernobyl City, near the former school, forgotten for many years and recovered in the early 90s thanks to the Jewish community that restored and preserved them. In fact the devotees of this currentĮvery year come from all over the world to visit the graves of the founders of the dynasty, Grand Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky Admur of Chernobyl, as well as his grandson, Grand RabbiĪharon Twersky Admur of Chernobyl and great grandsons, Grand Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky Admur of Chernobyl (son of R ‘Aharon), and Grand Rabbi Yeshaya Meshulam Zusia Twersky Admur of ![]() After the Second World War the remaining Jews in ChernobylĬonstituted just under 5% of the population, to disappear definitively with the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and the consequent evacuation of the city.Ĭhernobyl today, as well as a place of nuclear disaster and tourist destination, is also a historical memory of worship and pilgrimage for Hassidic Jews. ![]() During the Second World War Chernobyl was occupied by the Nazis and most of the Jewish population was exterminated. At that moment Chernobyl ceased to exist as the center of this branch In New York, a branch of the family founded a new Chernobyl town in New Square, 40 miles from New York. With the advent of the First World War, Jews continued to be persecuted and the Twersky dynasty decided in 1920 to leave Chernobyl moving primarily to Israel and the United States. Chernobyl had 5 synagogues, they were all destroyed,Įxcept one that is still standing today and became a military recruitment center under the Soviet period. Moreover, with theįall of the Tsar and the rise of communism all religions were persecuted and banned, including Judaism. From 1881 toġ921 pogroms took place across Ukraine: the anti-Semitic uprisings, and the resulting massacres and looting against the Jewish population, supported by the Soviet government. But life for the Chernobyl Jews became extremely difficult. In the second half of theġ8th century 60% of the population of Chernobyl was Jewish, and the city became a major center of the Hassidic movement. The first traces of the city of Chernobyl date back to 1193, but it is in 1566 that the first Jewish settlements begin. In Chernobyl, where he founded the Hassidic dynasty which spread throughout the world.Ĭhernobyl has a deep history related to the Jews. The major branches of the Hassidic movement, one of the most important currents of Judaism - the reforming current of orthodox Judaism - developed.Ī Hassidic dynasty was born in Chernobyl from Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky, born in 1730 and a student of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement. There is a Chernobyl before the nuclear accident occurred on April 26, 1986, not well known but of great historical importance, especially for the Jewish people. In fact, in Chernobyl one of
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