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New York Times: Among Ukraine’s Jews, the bigger worry is Putin, not pogroms

Published April 9, 2014 at 7:10 am

Before the Holocaust, Jews made up nearly a third of Dnipropetrovsk's population, making it one of the most important centers of Jewish life and culture in Europe.

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DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — From his office atop the world’s biggest Jewish community center, Shmuel Kaminezki, the chief rabbi of this eastern Ukrainian city, has followed with dismay Russian claims that Ukraine is now in the hands of neo-Nazi extremists — and has struggled to calm his panicked 85-year-old mother in New York.