Ukraine Seminar Tour - Part Three I

Monday and Tuesday, in the footsteps of Jabotinsky, who was born and educated here, and to where he returned after university studies in Italy and where he ran for the Duma, we toured the city:

At top of Potemkin Steps

Istanbul Park

Duke de Richelieu Statue

The Richlieu Gymnasia where he went to school, now:

Then:

The Opera House from the other side:

See Haifa at top

Pushkin Memorial

Catherine the Great

The Opera where he had his own reserved seat:

The Passage, through which Jabotinsky walked daily to his newspaper's editorial offices:

Note: "On Deribasovskaya, opposite the City Park, stood the Passage, the luxurious symbol 
of the trade of the city, built in 1899. Jabotinsky himself made this trip daily, 
because the Passage was also the center of the press. Here they published 
the dailies of Odessa, including the Odessa News, to which Jabotinsky 
and many other eminent authors were daily contributors."

At the offices of the Eretz-Yisrael Committee

Continued, Part Three II.

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Ukraine Seminar Tour - Part Two

Shabbat, after an 8AM breakfast (services started after 10 so we missed most of that), we walked through the center of Kyiv up the avenue, to the park, the University, the Opera, Golden Gate, St. Sophia, Independence Square and through a ten minute downpour (no umbrellas for us Shabbat observers) back to hotel. Supper at 8 and Havdala at just before 10PM

Next day, Sunday, after breakfast walking through nigh deserted streets

off to Odessa, 

via Umman the Israeli Shtetl:

and Rebbe Nachman's grave site

and the Sofia Park:

where they sell toy duplicates of the weapons the Cossacks beat Jews to death

and finally, the Bristol Hotel in Odessa.

and supper at Mendi's

Part One.

Part Three I.

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