ODESSA, Ukraine — Rabbi Avraham Wolff is preparing for war. He has bought enough sugar, macaroni and canned goods to feed his congregation for a year, he said. He has hired about 20 Israeli security guards in case rioting and looting break out. And if the Russians do invade, he said he has mapped out the city’s bomb shelters and has enough buses on standby to evacuate 3,000 people. “This is why I’m gray at 50,” said Wolff, the leader of one of the two main Jewish congregations in the Black Sea p
Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov in his office in Odessa, Ukraine on Feb. 18, 2022. He has bought enough sugar, macaroni and canned goods to feed his congregation for a year, he said. He has hired about 20 Israeli security guards in case rioting and looting break out. And if the Russians do invade, he said he has mapped out the city’s bomb shelters and has enough buses on standby to evacuate 3,000 people.
“There are people who have seen it, who have been through it, especially the elderly,” said Kruskal, whose father and father-in-law survived concentration camps. “So I think that’s why Jewish communities are more worried, more concerned or more prepared than others.” Lisytsina said that most of all she feared that a war could tear apart her family as happened during World War II. Her grandfather and aunt were killed at Babyn Yar outside Kyiv, one of the most horrific mass executions of Jews during the war. One of her uncles and her father were killed fighting Nazis at the front. She worries that her grandson, Danil, who will turn 18 in March and be eligible for the army draft, will be called to war.
Isaac Babel, an author whose short stories brim with the city’s peculiar assortment of aristocrats, artists and swindlers, reserved a special fondness for its “poor Jews” whose refusal to give up their old ways, he wrote, “has created an atmosphere of lightness and clarity that surrounds Odessa.” On Saturday night, the city’s main synagogue was packed with congregants who had come to break the Sabbath. Men in black hats rocked back and forth reciting prayers, while a group of young men in kipas sat in the back row, scrolling on phones hidden behind prayer books.
Odessa also sits just a few hundred miles from where Russian naval forces have been carrying out massive military exercises in the Black Sea, and some ships are close enough to reach the city in a matter of hours.
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