Sudylkiv (Ukrainian: Судилків) is a village in Shepetivka Raion in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sudylkiv rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Sudylkiv
Судилків Sudyłków | |
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 Sudylkiv village council | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Sudylkiv Location in Ukraine  Sudylkiv Sudylkiv (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 50°09′59″N 27°07′53″E / 50.16639°N 27.13139°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Khmelnytskyi Oblast |
| Raion | Shepetivskyi Raion |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 30430 |
| Area code | +380 3840 |
| KOATUU | 6825588501 |
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History edit
The 1897 census reveals that out of a total population of 5,551 there were 2,712 Jews.[2] On August 20, 1941, the 45th reserve police battalion killed 471 Jews in a nearby forest.[3] Today, the formerly important Jewish community is nonexistent due to the Holocaust and emigration.
Notable people edit
- Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov, prominent rabbi from the town
- Rebecca Spielberg, US film director Steven Spielberg's grandmother[4][5]
- From 1865 to 1872, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence, spent his childhood in Sudylkiv. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister, during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.[6]
- Maurice Schwartz, a stage and film actor active in the United States. He founded the Yiddish Art Theatre and its associated school in New York City and was its theatrical producer and director. He also worked in Hollywood, mostly as an actor in silent films but also as a film director, producer, and screenwriter.
References edit
- ^ "Судилковская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "Sudilkov: Jewish History".
- ^ "Sudilkov". 6 May 2015.
- ^ "Spielberg, Arnold". Rutgers Oral History Archives. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ^ "A close encounter with Steven Spielberg's dad". Jewish Journal. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ^ Carol R. Ember; Melvin Ember; Ian Skoggard (2005). Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Springer. p. 260. ISBN 0306483211.