Zhitomir

Town Leader: Janette Silverman

JewishGen KehilaLinks: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Zhytomyr/

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1900s Name: Zhitomir
1900s District: Zhitomir
1900s Province: Volhynia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

1930s: Zhitomir, Zhitomir, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Zhitomir, Soviet Union
Modern: Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Other names: Zhytomyr [Ukr], Zhitomir [Rus, Yid], zytomierz [Pol], Schytomyr [Ger], Žytomyr, Žitomir, Shitomir, Jitomir

Coordinates: 50°15'N 28°40'E Mapquest Google Maps

Projects

Name

Coordinator

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Cemeteries: Documentation for JOWBR, Zhitomir

Janette Silverman

In progress

In its
2005 report,
The US Commission for the Preservation of America"s Heritage Abroad identified 4 Jewish Cemeteries in Zhitomir. Two of them have been overbuilt with commercial and residential developments. One is a Municipal cemetery that has both Christian and Jewish burials. The Jewish burials are in a separate section. The Commission states that the other cemetery has more than 5,000 burials.

Ukraine SIG is translating inscriptions from gravestone photos as well as a Chabad burial list and for that large Jewish cemetery. The burial list has data for more than 4,000 burials. The gravestone photos were gathered by Janette Silverman. These two sources of Zhitomir burials have been merged into a Master dataset that is being processed (edited, proofread, and prepared for submission to JOWBR). Additional photos exist and will be processed as we receive them.

JOWBR currently lists 1,370 burials. Ukraine SIG will merge these into the Master spreadsheet.

A draft of the Master spreadsheet is available at the URL listed below. Be cautious in using this. It has not been fully edited yet and still contains errors.

Document and Dataset Collections

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Time frame

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Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), Zhitomir

2001

CAHJP Documents, Zhitomir

Some entries in the Kremenets Catalog of CAHJP documents have been acquired. Some translations have been completed. Contact Ron Doctor, rddpdx@gmail.com.

Pinkas HaKehilot, Zhitomir

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Master Name Index for Zhitomir

RABSHTEJN
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Articles

Title	Type	Author	View
Trip to Volhynia (August 1999)	Travel Reports	Ellen Shindelman Kowitt

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