In Uman, the last square of Ukrainian Jews resists

IThey are only a handful, hardly fifteen or twenty people, ten times less than before the war. The remnant of the small Jewish community in the Ukrainian city of Uman lives cowering in fear in the basement of its large synagogue. Every night, families go down to this shelter to protect themselves from the risk of Russian bombardment, spend the night on mattresses, lying on wooden benches and on the floor of the ablution basins in what is, in normal times, , a bathroom reserved for the mikveh, the ritual bath practiced by religious Jewish communities.

“Two missiles fell on the city,” says Nathan Ben Noun, president of the international charitable foundation of Rabbi Nahman of Breslev, leader of this small Hasidic community. ” All the…