Odessa Jewish Heritage Tour

Odessa Jewish Heritage Tour

This Jewish Odessa tour tells the story of Odessa's Jewry since the city's founding till modern times. The “Star in Exile” for an Eastern European Jew in the 19th century. The center of the Haskalah and Zionism. In hundred years Odessa became the third largest Jewish city in the world.

The tour takes you to the temples – the Great Choral Synagogue and Shomrei Shabbos Synagogue. We follow in the footsteps of Odessa’s Zionists, including Meir Dizengoff and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. We see the location of Odessa’s Palestine Committee. We explore some of the darkest sides of Odessa’s Jewish history – pogroms and Holocaust.

But more importantly, we not just visit the sights, our guides skillfully tell the story of the Jewish Odessa, covering spiritual, religious and business aspects.

Aah, and if you’ve read the famous Edmund de Waal’s bestseller “The Hare with Amber Eyes” and keen on walking in the footsteps of the Ephrussis, then you should definitely take this tour!

Itinerary
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Stop At: Odessa Synagogue, Evreiskaya, 25, Odessa 65045 Ukraine

We tell you the story of Odessa's Main Synagogue; explore its exterior and interior

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Odessa Synagogue, Evreiskaya, 25, Odessa 65045 Ukraine

Will see the Brodsky synagogue from the outside

Duration: 15 minutes