Jewish Heritage

Jewish Heritage

Kiev – Zhitomir- Odessa

5 days/4 nights 

DAY 1 - KIEV

After passport examination and customs inspection, your guide will meet and transfer you to the center of Kiev that was the capital of the ancient Russian State known as Kievan Rus’ and referred to as the “mother of Russian Cities”. Afternoon panorama city tour includes visit to Babiy Yar, the sad history of which is well known all over the world. You will be able to see the monuments created to commemorate those thousands of Jewish & Ukrainian people who perished during the Nazi occupation of Kiev that lasted for 777 days. Overnight at the hotel.

DAY 2 - KIEV

Breakfast at the hotel. This morning tour will take you to the central Synagogue named after Brodskiy, Old Podil with Synagogue, memorial to Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel, and Sholom Aleichem’s monument. After lunch at a local restaurant continue to Kurenivskoye cemetery & Berkovtsy. In the afternoon you may also have a meeting with a rabbi of the central Synagogue. 

DAY 3 KIEV – Zhitomir– BERDICHEV – UMAN

Breakfast at the hotel followed by check out and coach transfer to Zhitomir. The tour includes visits to Old Jewish quarter, graves of Rabbi Wolf, Rabbi Aaron the Great Maggid, Bogunsky Forest Memorial which is the site of mass graves & Synagogue. After lunch, proceed to Berdichev, where you will have a chance to visit Old Jewish quarter, Synagogue & Jewish cemetery with Tsadik Levy-Yitshok grave. Among the sites, which attract large numbers of Jewish visitors, is Uman, the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav & Gadyach, the tomb of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the Alter Rabbi – the founder of the Lubavitch Chassidic movement.

Check-in at the hotel.

DAY 4 UMAN – ODESSA

Breakfast at the hotel, followed by four hour coach transfer to Odessa. After check-in and lunch at a local restaurant enjoy the city tour that combines general places of interest like Prymorsky boulevard, Potemkin Steps, statue of the Duc de Richelieu, Opera & Ballet Theater & Jewish heritage sites among which are Synagogue, Stolyarsky Music School, Jewish school & Jewish Community Center. 

DAY 5 - ODESSA

Breakfast at the hotel. Optional tours to Kalinindorf, Stalindorf or Zlatopol, followed by departure transfer.