The Jews of Belarus in the Socio-Political, Scientific, Educational and Cultural Space of Ukraine (Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries)

In the history of Ukraine the Belarus-born Jews have naturally joined the political and cultural context of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Investigations on the destinies of the Belarusian Jewry, their integration into multi-ethnic, multicultural Ukrainian society is for the first time offered as a new scientific topic. Its research is based on the system analysis to identify relationships in the formation of the Jewish historical and cultural heritage in Ukraine, Eastern European and global context. The author’s researches confirm the relevance of the subject, since the contribution of Jews in Belarus to the development of national, world science and culture. Belarusian Jewry in Ukraine is: politics leaders M.Gutman, H.Zhytlovsky. Sionist leaders were V.Levanda, T.Maslyansky, A.Usyshkin. Historical sciences are represented by S.Dubnov, and S.An-sky. The contribution to the pedagogical potential of the University of Kyiv was made by: F.Zharovsky, the chemist; A.Podalyak, the historian. M.Sforim, the writer and artists M.Shagal, A.Manevich. It is recognized the contribution to the development of art, scientific of Ginzburg generation of Maecenas. Belarus, as a special ethno-cultural region of the Russian Empire and the USSR, has influenced the preservation of ethnic and cultural memory of the Jews of Belarus in Ukraine. Their worldview and creative tastes, formed in Belarus, remained in the genetic memory of «small homeland», which has been reflected in the spiritual source of their heritage. Ukraine has also provided many of them with professional self-realization, and contributed to the formation of the Belarusian special context of the history of Jews in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.