Click Here to Read: Before Crimea Was an Ethnic Russian Stronghold, It Was a Potential Jewish Homeland: Jews have lived in the area since ancient times, and leaders from Catherine the Great to Stalin encouraged their settlement there By Jeffrey Veidlinger on The Tablet website on March 4, 2014.
Three young men in a wheat field at the Ḥakla’i (Farmer) settlement, Dzhankoi, Ukraine, USSR, ca. 1920s. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York)