Interesting photos from the Uman pilgrimage

[Masha]

These photos are in two parts. They are from last year and show the yearly pilgrimage of Chasidic Jews to Uman for the New Year. This is very interesting. The text is in Russian. But the text doesn't matter. The pictures tell the story. One important piece of information is that the number of pilgrims was 15,000 last year and is growing every year. My family is from Uman. I wish I had some property there. Now I would be rich renting it every year.

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/296452.html
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/296822.html

It looks like they are break-dancing. Are they?

[muman613]

These photos are in two parts. They are from last year and show the yearly pilgrimage of Chasidic Jews to Uman for the New Year. This is very interesting. The text is in Russian. But the text doesn't matter. The pictures tell the story. One important piece of information is that the number of pilgrims was 15,000 last year and is growing every year. My family is from Uman. I wish I had some property there. Now I would be rich renting it every year.

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/296452.html
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/296822.html

It looks like they are break-dancing. Are they?

Shalom my Family,

My family too is from Uman, my last name is Uman and it is a long story how that happened {though you probrobly know because your family probably entered America through the same way}...

Breslov Chassidus is very much into joy and happiness. Rabbi Nachman, who is buried in Uman, was the Rebbe for Breslev and his song 'Kol HaOlam Kulo' is sung by many Jews on Shabbat today. In Israel some of the Breslevers do go around in vans dancing and singing in the streets...

[Masha]

I haven't heard of the last name Uman'. I have heard of the name Umanski.perhaps your ancestors have shortened their family name. My family name was Krymski. I used to think that the family came from Crimea, but a name expert told me that it probably comes from the name of a small village that is (was) in the vicinity of Uman'. My ancestor, I was told, was the main Rabbi of Uman' in the 19th century. I wish I could find some info on him. Maybe one of these days I should go to Uman and try to find the info on him. I wonder if there is an old synagogue that has kept records and how I would go about it.

[Masha]

Hey, muman, maybe my family knew your family! Ha-ha. Or maybe not. There were a lot of Jews in Uman'. Perhaps they did not all know each other.

[muman613]

Hey, muman, maybe my family knew your family! Ha-ha. Or maybe not. There were a lot of Jews in Uman'. Perhaps they did not all know each other.

It is a small world... Yes, a lot of Jews left Uman, but it was a community... I think we have talked about the story Fiddler on the Roof. Although it is not about Uman it is in a way similar to how the Jewish communities in Ukraine were at that time. My family came to America in the 1890s and left in time to avoid pogroms of that era.

[Masha]

My family came to America in the 1890s and left in time to avoid pogroms of that era.

They were lucky/smart!

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Do you still feel sorry for the Nazi Japanese, Masha?

[Masha]

By the way, muman, was your family Chasidic? I don't think that my family was Chasids, judging from the old photographs. But they were, for sure, religious. Was there more than one kind of religious Jews in this geographical area in those days?

[Masha]

Here are even more photos from the same event by another journalist. I like these even better. Many beautiful, spiritual Jewish faces.

http://chistoprudov.livejournal.com/49002.html