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Balancing her voluptuous figure on high heels, Alexandra Rostov boards a minibus at Kyiv's Moskovskyi bus station, setting down her zebra-patterned bag as the driver starts the Soviet-era clunker.

Like thousands of Ukrainians, Rostov is heading to Uman, a city of some 85,000 in central Ukraine, to find work during the annual pilgrimage of more than 25,000 Jews to Uman.

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